{"id":78207,"date":"2026-02-28T00:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-28268-vikunja-vulnerable-to-account-takeover-via-password-reset-token-reuse\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:16:18","slug":"cve-2026-28268-vikunja-vulnerable-to-account-takeover-via-password-reset-token-reuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-28268-vikunja-vulnerable-to-account-takeover-via-password-reset-token-reuse\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-28268 &#8211; Vikunja Vulnerable to Account Takeover via Password Reset Token Reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-28268<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 27, 2026, 9:16 p.m. | 19\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Versions prior to 2.1.0 have a business logic vulnerability exists in the password reset mechanism of vikunja\/api that allows password reset tokens to be reused indefinitely. Due to a failure to invalidate tokens upon use and a critical logic bug in the token cleanup cron job, reset tokens remain valid forever. This allows an attacker who intercepts a single reset token (via logs, browser history, or phishing) to perform a complete, persistent account takeover at any point in the future, bypassing standard authentication controls. Version 2.1.0 contains a patch for the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 9.8 | CRITICAL<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-28268 Published : Feb. 27, 2026, 9:16 p.m. | 19\u00a0minutes ago Description : Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Versions prior to 2.1.0 have a business logic vulnerability exists in the password reset mechanism of vikunja\/api that allows password reset tokens to be reused indefinitely. Due to a failure to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}