High severity · published Feb 26, 2026
CVE-2026-27899
WireGuard Portal Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to Admin via User Self-Update
8.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
WireGuard Portal (or wg-portal) is a web-based configuration portal for WireGuard server management. Prior to version 2.1.3, any authenticated non-admin user can become a full administrator by sending a single PUT request to their own user profile endpoint with `"IsAdmin": true` in the JSON body. After logging out and back in, the session picks up admin privileges from the database. When a user updates their own profile, the server parses the full JSON body into the user model, including the `IsAdmin` boolean field. A function responsible for preserving calculated or protected attributes pins certain fields to their database values (such as base model data, linked peer count, and authentication data), but it does not do this for `IsAdmin`. As a result, whatever value the client sends for `IsAdmin` is written directly to the database. After the exploit, the attacker has full admin access to the WireGuard VPN management portal. The problem was fixed in v2.1.3. The docker images for the tag 'latest' built from the master branch also include the fix.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WG
wg-portal · h44z
< 2.1.3 · source: vendor
WP
Wireguard Portal · Wgportal
before 2.1.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27899
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27899
Patch
https://github.com/h44z/wg-portal/security/advisories/GHSA-5rmx-256w-8mj9
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