WeKan
CVE-2026-25563
HIGH
Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with a low-privilege WeKan account
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DeliveryEnumerate a target board and foreign card IDs
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ExploitSend checklist-creation request with mismatched cardId/boardId
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ExecutionServer skips ownership check and writes
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ImpactTamper with checklist data on another board
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a valid authenticated WeKan account (CVSS PR:L) and network access to the WeKan checklist REST endpoints; no user interaction and no special non-default configuration is needed, as the missing card-belongs-to-board check was present in the default code path of all versions before 8.19. The concrete prerequisite is the ability to supply a cardId and boardId that reference different boards - the attacker must know or enumerate a valid cardId from another board. Exploitation is limited to integrity impact on checklist data (no confidentiality or availability effect per VC:N/VA:N) and is bounded by the need for authentication, so a purely single-user or trusted-tenant instance faces reduced practical risk. |
| Impact | Signals are internally consistent and point to a real but bounded authorization flaw rather than an urgent widespread threat. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N) shows network-reachable, low-complexity, no-user-interaction exploitation but requires low-privilege authentication, and impact is integrity-only (VI:H) with no confidentiality (VC:N) or availability (VA:N) effect and no scope/subsequent-system impact - matching the diff, which guards writes into other boards without exposing read access. EPSS is near-floor (0.01%, 1st percentile) and there is no KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so this is not under active exploitation. The main priority driver is that it needs only a valid (any) authenticated WeKan account, making it a plausible insider/multi-tenant abuse vector; on a single-tenant private instance the practical risk is lower. No SSVC decision data was provided in the input, so automatable/technical-impact SSVC classification cannot be stated. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker registers or already holds an ordinary WeKan account, then calls the checklist creation REST route supplying the boardId of a victim board together with a cardId from a different board they can enumerate. Because the server never checked that the card belongs to that board, the checklist write succeeds, letting the attacker inject or alter checklist content on cards outside their authorization. No user interaction is needed and attack complexity is low, but valid authentication is required and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv3 – Jul 14, 2026
Cross-board data tampering in WeKan (the open-source Trello-style kanban board) before version 8.19 lets an authenticated low-privilege user attach checklists to cards on boards they do not own by supplying a mismatched cardId/boardId pair. Because the checklist creation routes never confirm the card actually belongs to the referenced board, any logged-in user can manipulate identifiers to write into other users' boards. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis and EPSS exploitation probability is negligible (0.01%), but the fix is confirmed by an upstream vendor commit.
Earlier versions of this analysis (2)
Cross-board data tampering in WeKan (open-source Trello-style kanban) before 8.19 lets an authenticated low-privilege user create or manipulate checklists on cards belonging to boards they do not have access to. The checklist REST routes accept an attacker-supplied cardId and boardId without verifying the card actually belongs to that board (CWE-639 IDOR), so identifier tampering crosses board isolation. A vendor patch (commit 5cd8758) is available; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is very low (0.01%).
Wekan versions up to 8.19 is affected by authorization bypass through user-controlled key (CVSS 7.5).
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade WeKan to version 8.19 or later, which adds card-to-board ownership verification on the checklist routes (upstream fix confirmed in commit 5cd875813fdec5a3c40a0358b30a347967c85c14; note the reference is a commit rather than a tagged release, so validate the packaged 8.19 build in your channel - Docker/Snap/source). If immediate upgrade is not possible, reduce exposure by limiting account provisioning and restricting who can obtain authenticated WeKan accounts (the attack requires a valid low-privilege login), and, on multi-team deployments, segregate sensitive boards onto separate instances to remove cross-board tampering opportunity; the trade-off is operational overhead and loss of shared-instance convenience. Review the VulnCheck advisory (https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wekan-checklist-creation-cross-board-idor) and consider auditing checklist-creation API logs for requests where cardId and boardId do not correlate.
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WeKan is a Meteor/Node.js self-hosted kanban application; the vulnerable code lives in the server-side REST routes in models/checklists.js. The flaw is a classic Insecure Direct Object Reference (CWE-639, Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key): the checklist creation and related checklist endpoints accepted a user-supplied cardId and boardId but performed no relational check that the card actually resides on that board. The vendor patch (commit 5cd875813fdec5a3c40a0358b30a347967c85c14) adds an explicit ReactiveCache.getCard lookup keyed on both _id and boardId across three route handlers, returning HTTP 404 ('Card not found or does not belong to the specified board') when the pairing is invalid - closing the object-reference gap.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Network-reachable checklist API with low-complexity ID tampering, but a valid account is required (PR:L); impact is integrity-only writes to other boards (I:H, C:N/A:N), scope unchanged.
Primary rating from Vendor (vulncheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: vulncheck
Lifecycle Timeline
5DescriptionCVE.org
WeKan versions prior to 8.19 contain an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) in checklist creation and related checklist routes. The implementation does not verify that the supplied cardId belongs to the supplied boardId, allowing cross-board ID tampering by manipulating identifiers.
Executive ViewAI
WeKan versions before 8.19 (open-source kanban collaboration tool) allow any authenticated employee to modify checklists and data on boards they do not own, creating unauthorized modification risk across all shared projects. No public exploit code has been identified, but the vulnerability is accessible to any user with login credentials. Organizations using WeKan should prioritize patching to version 8.19 or later.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
packages/wekan-ldap/server/ldap.js in Wekan before 4.87 can process connections even though they are not authorized by t
OS command injection in Wekan (the open-source Meteor-based kanban board) before version 9.07 lets an authenticated user
Authentication bypass in Wekan (open-source Meteor kanban) before version 9.46 lets an unauthenticated attacker imperson
A stored cross-site scripting (Stored XSS) vulnerability in file preview in WeKan before 6.75 allows remote authenticate
Wekan, open source kanban board system, between version 3.12 and 4.11, is vulnerable to multiple stored cross-site scrip
Account takeover in Wekan (open-source Meteor kanban) before 9.32 allows an attacker who controls an OIDC provider accou
Privilege escalation in Wekan open-source kanban (all versions prior to 9.89, dubbed 'SortBleed') allows any board membe
Privilege escalation in the self-hosted Wekan kanban board through version 18.15 allows any authenticated user to rewrit
Stored XSS in Wekan prior to v9.90 allows authenticated board members to upload HTML containing JavaScript disguised as
LDAP filter injection in WeKan before 8.19 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to manipulate LDAP search filters and
Privilege escalation in WeKan (versions prior to 8.35) allows authenticated board members with low privileges to perform
Wekan's outgoing webhook URL validator in versions 8.36 through 9.73 allows authenticated board members to bypass SSRF p
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