CVE-2026-68899 PUBLISHED

Wekan: File Upload MIME Type Validation Bypass — Stored XSS via Missing System Binary Fallback

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 31.07.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.90, isFileValid() in models/fileValidation.js used the Unix file command for content-based MIME detection, but detectMimeFromFile() silently returned undefined when that binary was unavailable and the validation fell back to the attacker-controlled fileObj.type supplied through server/routes/attachmentApi.js. On deployments with WITH_API=true and no file binary, an authenticated board member could label HTML containing JavaScript as image/png, bypass the dangerous MIME check, and store active content under the Wekan origin for execution when another user opened it. Version 9.90 adds looksLikeDangerousMarkup() to inspect file bytes and force dangerous-content scanning when MIME detection is unavailable. This issue is fixed in version 9.90.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor wekan
Product wekan
Versions
  • Version < 9.90 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type CWE