CVE-2026-1640 PUBLISHED

Taskbuilder <= 5.0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Project/Task Comment Creation

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 29.01.2026 Published: 18.02.2026 Updated: 18.02.2026

The Taskbuilder – WordPress Project Management & Task Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.2. This is due to missing authorization checks on the project and task comment submission functions (AJAX actions: wppm_submit_proj_comment and wppm_submit_task_comment). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create comments on any project or task (including private projects they cannot view or are not assigned to), and inject arbitrary HTML and CSS via the insufficiently sanitized comment_body parameter.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor taskbuilder
Product Taskbuilder – WordPress Project Management & Task Management,kanban view
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 5.0.2 (incl.)

Credits

  • Tarcísio Luchesi De Almeida Silva finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE