Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-68561

wekan wekan

Wekan: a low-privilege board member escalates to board admin and takes over a private board via the `sort` collection-allow rule

CVSS 3.1
8.8High

Official description

Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.89, the second Boards.allow({ update }) rule in server/permissions/boards.js called canUpdateBoardSort in server/lib/utils.js, which authorized any board member whenever fieldNames included sort. Because Meteor combines allow rules with OR semantics and applies the complete modifier, a comment-only or read-only member could send one Boards.update with $set values for sort, members, permission, and title, make themselves the sole board administrator, expose a private board, and evict the legitimate owner; the last-admin deny rule inspected only $pull and did not block a wholesale $set of members. Version 9.89 requires sort to be the only modified field and rejects $set member arrays that remove the last active administrator. This issue is fixed in version 9.89.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
wekan wekan < 9.89 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-08-19
Last updated
2026-08-25
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
GitHub_M

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.5%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
43.4%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269
    Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-863
    Incorrect Authorization