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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2026-27899 json

WireGuard Portal Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to Admin via User Self-Update

published 2026-02-26 8 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-5rmx-256w-8mj9 , GO-2026-4566 , EUVD-2026-8797

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/h44z/wg-portal 2.1.3
  • wgportal wireguard_portal 2.1.3
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20260317T205859-150000.1.152.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1042-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/h44z/wg-portal
<2.1.3
all versions
2.1.3

Affected products

  • h44z wg-portal

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

References

Sources

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