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CVE-2026-86113: BookWyrm through 0.9.1 Insecure Direct Object Reference in edit-readthrough Allows Tampering with Other Users' Reading Records

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2026-09-05 · updated 2026-09-08
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

BookWyrm through 0.9.1 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the edit_readthrough function that allows authenticated users to modify other users' reading records. Attackers can exploit sequential ReadThrough IDs to overwrite arbitrary users' start dates, finish dates, progress, and progress mode, affecting reading statistics and exported data.

Affected products

• bookwyrm-social bookwyrm: through 0.9.1

References

• https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
• https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/v0.9.1/bookwyrm/views/status.py
• https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/bookwyrm.md#finding-3-authenticated-idor-in-edit-readthrough-allows-tampering-with-other-users-reading-progress
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bookwyrm-through-0.9.1-insecure-direct-object-reference-in-edit-readthrough-allows-tampering-with-other-users-reading-records
• https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/bookwyrm.md#finding-3-authenticated-idor-in-edit-readthrough-allows-tampering-with-other-users-reading-progress

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