Shiori contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the account update endpoint that allows authenticated users to modify the owner field without authorization checks. Attackers can escalate to administrator by submitting a crafted PATCH request with owner: true, then re-authenticate to obtain an admin JWT token granting full system access.
CVE-2026-61463
Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-13. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8(high)
- EPSS
- 29.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 13, 2026
Last Modified
July 13, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Jul 13, 2026Shiori Authenticated Privilege Escalation via PATCH /api/v1/auth/account | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/shiori-authenticated-privilege-escalation-via-patch-api-v1-auth-accountcommit 6c8a7dbc11b1 (go-shiori/shiori)
Fix landed in go-shiori/shiori commit 6c8a7dbc11b1 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori/commit/6c8a7dbc11b131609bfda736b14d61c51f9027b2GitHub - go-shiori/shiori: Simple bookmark manager built with Go · GitHub
https://github.com/go-shiori/shioriAuthenticated User Can Self-Escalate to Administrator via PATCH /api/v1/auth/account · Issue #1196 · go-shiori/shiori · GitHub
https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori/issues/1196Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-61463(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-07-15 21:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 21:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 08:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 08:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-14 19:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 19:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 06:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 06:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 17:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 17:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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