# CVE-2026-24885: Kanboard Affected by Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via Content-Type Misconfiguration in Project Role Assignment

- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.50
- Published: 2026-02-10 · Updated: 2026-02-10

## Affected

- kanboard: fixed in 1.2.50

## Description

Kanboard is project management software focused on Kanban methodology. Prior to 1.2.50, a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in the ProjectPermissionController within the Kanboard application. The application fails to strictly enforce the application/json Content-Type for the changeUserRole action. Although the request body is JSON, the server accepts text/plain, allowing an attacker to craft a malicious form using the text/plain attribute. Which allows unauthorized modification of project user roles if an authenticated admin visits a malicious site This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.50.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kanboard, upgrade to a fixed version (1.2.50) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/security/advisories/GHSA-582j-h4w4-hwr5
- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/commit/2c56d92783d4a3094812c2f7cba50f80a372f95e
- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/releases/tag/v1.2.50

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