FKIE_CVE-2026-22251

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-12 18:15 - Updated: 2026-01-27 20:35
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
wlc is a Weblate command-line client using Weblate's REST API. Prior to 1.17.0, wlc supported providing unscoped API keys in the setting. This practice was discouraged for years, but the code was never removed. This might cause the API key to be leaked to different servers.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/WeblateOrg/wlc/commit/aafdb507a9e66574ade1f68c50c4fe75dbe80797Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/WeblateOrg/wlc/pull/1098Issue Tracking
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/WeblateOrg/wlc/security/advisories/GHSA-9rp8-h4g8-8766Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
weblate wlc *
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  "lastModified": "2026-01-27T20:35:05.300",
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