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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-23480 EUVD-2026-14529

Blinko: Low Privilege User Privilege Escalation - upsertUser Endpoint

Published Mar 23, 2026 · Updated Mar 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
blinkospace blinko < 1.8.4 —

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