CVE-2026-26218: newbee-mall Default Seeded Administrator Credentials Allow Account Takeover

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2026-02-12 · updated 2026-07-14
Weakness: CWE-798

Description

newbee-mall includes pre-seeded administrator accounts in its database initialization script. These accounts are provisioned with a predictable default password. Deployments that initialize or reset the database using the provided schema and fail to change the default administrative credentials may allow unauthenticated attackers to log in as an administrator and gain full administrative control of the application.

Affected products

newbee-ltd newbee-mall: through 1.0.0

References

https://github.com/newbee-ltd/newbee-mall/issues/119
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/newbee-mall-default-seeded-administrator-credentials-allow-account-takeover

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