Vulnerability · Published Jul 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-45336HireFlow: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Critical 10.0

In plain English

A critical-severity hard-coded credentials in HireFlow from StratonWebDesigners. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)10.0Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

HireFlow is a web-based interview management system for managing candidates, scheduling interviews, and tracking hiring progress. In 1.2 and earlier, app.py assigns a hard-coded Flask secret_key used to sign session cookies, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know the public source value to forge cookies containing role=admin and user_id values and bypass authentication. The advisory lists version 1.3 as fixed.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
StratonWebDesigners	HireFlow	< 1.3

Weakness: CWE-798 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

References

https://github.com/StratonWebDesigners/HireFlow/security/advisories/GHSA-x53g-jr84-jrv5 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/StratonWebDesigners/HireFlow/releases/tag/v1.3 x_refsource_MISC