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CVE-2025-27134

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2025-04-30 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. Prior to version 3.3.3, a privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Joplin server, allowing non-admin users to exploit the API endpoint `PATCH /api/users/:id` to set the `is_admin` field to 1. The vulnerability allows malicious low-privileged users to perform administrative actions without proper authorization. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.3.

Affected Platforms

Joplin Project Joplin

Weakness Type

CWE-284, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References