CVE-2026-86113 (GCVE-0-2026-86113)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-05 09:59
Modified
2026-09-24 14:21
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - 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
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Summary
BookWyrm through 0.9.1 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the edit_readthrough function that allows authenticated users to modify other users' reading records. Attackers can exploit sequential ReadThrough IDs to overwrite arbitrary users' start dates, finish dates, progress, and progress mode, affecting reading statistics and exported data.
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Impacted products
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bookwyrm-social bookwyrm Version: 0   ≤ 0.9.1
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