CVE-2026-72563: BadChoice Handesk - Broken Access Control

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-08-11 · updated 2026-10-24
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

A broken access control vulnerability in BadChoice Handesk as of 2026-07-10 allows any authenticated agent to overwrite lead records belonging to other teams via the LeadsController@update endpoint. The endpoint performs no authorization check, and the Lead model has guarded set to an empty array making all columns mass-assignable. An attacker with any agent account can corrupt lead data across team boundaries.

Affected products

BadChoice Handesk: through 2026-07-10

References

https://github.com/BadChoice/handesk

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