Leantime vulnerabilities

Leantime is an open source project management system. Prior to 3.10.0, for the provisionally grouped account-creation and plugin-management surfaces, Leantime's JSON-RPC dispatcher in app/Domain/Api/Controllers/Jsonrpc.php exposes public API service methods, while PermissionEnforcer::enforce allows methods that lack a RequiresPermission attribute. A low-privilege authenticated user with an ordinary browser session can send the required X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest header and call leantime.rpc.api.api.createApiKeyWithProjects, which reaches Api::createApiKeyWithProjects, with an attacker-chosen role to create an interactive administrator account. The same missing per-method authorization exposes Plugins::installPlugin, Plugins::enablePlugin, Plugins::disablePlugin, and Plugins::removePlugin to ordinary authenticated users, permitting unauthorized plugin management. The complete provisionally grouped issue is fixed in version 3.10.0.

Leantime before 3.9.6 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the HTMX plugin install endpoint that lacks permission validation. Authenticated users with limited roles can install marketplace plugins and control arbitrary properties including identifier, version, and license key to deploy malicious plugins.

Leantime JSON-RPC API through version 3.9.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the JSON-RPC dispatcher in app/Domain/Api/Controllers/Jsonrpc.php. The dispatcher does not enforce authorization before invoking service-layer methods, allowing an authenticated user to call methods or act on resources outside their intended permissions. For example, the editOwn method accepts a user-supplied user ID without verifying that it belongs to the caller, allowing an attacker to modify another user's account and set a new password, resulting in account takeover. This vulnerability is distinct from CVE-2026-59712 and CVE-2026-15509 because the root cause is the lack of centralized authorization enforcement in the JSON-RPC dispatcher rather than the behavior of an individual exposed method.

Leantime through 3.6.2 exposes the JSON-RPC methods leantime.rpc.TwoFA.TwoFA.getSetupData, saveSecret, verifyAndEnable, and disable2FA, which act on a caller-supplied userId parameter with no ownership check, session pinning, or permission-attribute gate (unlike other RPC-exposed methods in the same dispatcher).

Leantime 3.6.2 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to perform state-changing actions on behalf of authenticated users by excluding the Laravel VerifyCsrfToken middleware from the global middleware stack in app/Http/Kernel.php. Attackers can craft malicious pages delivered via phishing emails or malicious websites to trigger unauthorized POST, PUT, and DELETE requests that create or delete projects, modify settings, and change permissions as any authenticated user.

Leantime 3.6.2 contains a server-side request forgery and local file inclusion vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to read internal resources by passing unsanitized user-supplied filenames to file_get_contents() in the Blueprints::import() method without path validation. Attackers can submit crafted filenames containing URL wrappers or path traversal sequences through the JSON-RPC API endpoint to access cloud metadata services or read arbitrary files from the server filesystem.

Leantime contains an OIDC login CSRF vulnerability in the verifyState() method that unconditionally returns true without validating state parameters. Attackers can craft malicious callback URLs with attacker-controlled authorization codes to perform session fixation, logging victims in as the attacker.

Leantime's Users::getUser method in the JSON-RPC API lacks proper authorization checks, allowing authenticated users to retrieve full user credential rows including password hashes, TOTP secrets, and session tokens. Attackers can exploit this by calling users.getUser with arbitrary user IDs to enumerate all accounts and obtain credentials for offline password cracking, 2FA bypass, and session hijacking.