Critical severity · published Feb 13, 2026
CVE-2026-26273
Known affected by Account Takeover via Password Reset Token Leakage
9.8
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Known is a social publishing platform. Prior to 1.6.3, a Critical Broken Authentication vulnerability exists in Known 1.6.2 and earlier. The application leaks the password reset token within a hidden HTML input field on the password reset page. This allows any unauthenticated attacker to retrieve the reset token for any user by simply querying the user's email, leading to full Account Takeover (ATO) without requiring access to the victim's email inbox. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 62% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KN
known · idno
< 1.6.3 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26273
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-26273
Patch
https://github.com/idno/known/commit/8439a0747471559fb1ea9f074b929d390f27e66a
Product
https://github.com/idno/known/releases/tag/1.6.3
Exploit
https://github.com/idno/known/security/advisories/GHSA-78wq-6gcv-w28r
