# CVE-2026-44343: WGDashboard - RCE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2026-44343 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2026-44343

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** WGDashboard
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))
- **Tags:** web_application, management_panel

## Description

WGDashboard is a dashboard for WireGuard VPN. Prior to 4.3.2, there are critical vulnerabilities affecting WGDashboard that, if exploited, could allow unauthorized parties to access the host file system without authentication. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.3.2.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2026-44343](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2026-44343) is a critical vulnerability in WGDashboard versions prior to 4.3.2 that allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to access the host file system. Successful exploitation could enable arbitrary file access and potentially lead to remote code execution, system compromise, data theft, or disruption of WireGuard VPN services.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 17th of September 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2026-44343 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers target the `/fileDownload` endpoint with directory traversal sequences in the `file` parameter, such as `../../../../etc/passwd`, to bypass access controls and read sensitive files from the host filesystem.

## Timeline

- 2026-05-12: CVE Published. CVE-2026-44343 is published to NVD.
- 2026-09-17: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2026-44343 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-10-04: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-44343 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/WGDashboard/WGDashboard/commit/b15bbce9bc5554ec379d558f032c730db47fcea2
- https://github.com/WGDashboard/WGDashboard/security/advisories/GHSA-rrf5-q4fp-qvgm
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-44343.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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