Vulnerability details
CVE-2026-68561
Wekan: a low-privilege board member escalates to board admin and takes over a private board via the `sort` collection-allow rule
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
| Score | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| wekan | wekan | < 9.89 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) |
References and advisories
3- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/commit/dc135f6e7d59f9f56065cd5df83b1f123ea120bb x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases/tag/v9.89 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/security/advisories/GHSA-xm8x-c8wg-jhmf x_refsource_CONFIRM
Details
- Published
- 2026-08-19
- Last updated
- 2026-08-25
- State
- Published
- Assigner (CNA)
- GitHub_M
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
SSVC assessment (CISA)
- Automatable
- No
- Exploitation
- Proof of concept
- Technical impact
- Total
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-269Improper Privilege Management
- CWE-863Incorrect Authorization