CVE-2026-68561 (GCVE-0-2026-68561)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 19:24 – Updated: 2026-08-25 13:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Wekan: a low-privilege board member escalates to board admin and takes over a private board via the `sort` collection-allow rule
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-25 13:57 UTC
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/wekan/wekan/security/advisorie… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/wekan/wekan/commit/dc135f6e7d5… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases/tag/v9.89 | x_refsource_MISC |
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