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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-13 | Published 2026-03-23 | Updated 2026-03-24 | Assigner GitHub_M




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Product status

< 1.8.4
affected

References

github.com/...blinko/security/advisories/GHSA-r3mv-q7ww-86p6

github.com/...ommit/3afbdf486b6f371bdac5781dea6289749f2c4c03

github.com/blinkospace/blinko/releases/tag/1.8.4

cve.org (CVE-2026-23480)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-23480)

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