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High · 8.3 CVE-2026-42562 EUVD-2026-28929

Plainpad: Privilege Escalation via Writable Admin Field in Profile Update (Access Control)

Published May 9, 2026 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Plainpad is a self hosted note taking app. Prior to version 1.1.1, Plainpad allows a low-privilege authenticated user to self-escalate to administrator by submitting admin=true in PUT /api.php/v1/users/{id}. The endpoint directly persists the admin attribute from user input, and the escalated account can immediately access admin-only routes. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
alextselegidis plainpad < 1.1.1 —

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