CVE-2026-27899HIGH 8.8EPSS p22.1%

CVE-2026-27899CVE-2026-27899

Description

WireGuard Portal (or wg-portal) is a web-based configuration portal for WireGuard server management. Prior to version 2.1.3, any authenticated non-admin user can become a full administrator by sending a single PUT request to their own user profile endpoint with `"IsAdmin": true` in the JSON body. After logging out and back in, the session picks up admin privileges from the database. When a user updates their own profile, the server parses the full JSON body into the user model, including the `IsAdmin` boolean field. A function responsible for preserving calculated or protected attributes pins certain fields to their database values (such as base model data, linked peer count, and authentication data), but it does not do this for `IsAdmin`. As a result, whatever value the client sends for `IsAdmin` is written directly to the database. After the exploit, the attacker has full admin access to the WireGuard VPN management portal. The problem was fixed in v2.1.3. The docker images for the tag 'latest' built from the master branch also include the fix.

Scoring

CVSS 3.18.8 (HIGH)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.31% probability of exploitation · percentile 22.1% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z
Published2026-02-26
Last modified2026-03-02

Underlying weaknesses· 2

CWE-269CWE-863

References

  1. https://github.com/h44z/wg-portal/security/advisories/GHSA-5rmx-256w-8mj9

2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessImproper Privilege Managementcwe-2690%live
WeaknessIncorrect Authorizationcwe-8630%live

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