CVE-2026-23480CWE-288

Blinko: Low Privilege User Privilege Escalation - upsertUser Endpoint

Medium · published March 23, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
28.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Blinko is an AI-powered card note-taking project. Prior to version 1.8.4, there is a privilege escalation vulnerability. The upsertUser endpoint has 3 issues: it is missing superAdminAuthMiddleware, any logged-in user can call it; the originalPassword is an optional parameter and if not provided password verification is skipped; there is no check for input.id === ctx.id (ownership verification). This could result in any authenticated user modifying other users' passwords, direct escalation to superadmin, and complete account takeover. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.4.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00357 · 28.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Published
2026-03-23T20:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 MAR 20:39Z
    Blinko: Low Privilege User Privilege Escalation - upsertUser Endpoint
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