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Critical · 9.9 CVE-2026-52891 EUVD-2026-44829

Wekan: Shell Injection via Avatar Upload

Published Jul 15, 2026 · Updated Jul 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.07, Wekan avatar upload functionality embeds user-supplied filenames into paths later passed to child_process.exec() for MIME-type detection. Because models/avatars.js and models/fileValidation.js used a shell command with the avatar filename, shell metacharacters such as backticks and $() in the filename could execute commands on the server. This issue is fixed in version 9.07.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wekan wekan < 9.07 —

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