Scripta eScriptorium up to 26.4.1 Process/Annotation Taxonomy Serializers authorization

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A vulnerability was found in Scripta eScriptorium up to 26.4.1. It has been classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Process/Annotation Taxonomy Serializers. Performing a manipulation results in authorization. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-18275. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Scripta eScriptorium up to 26.4.1. This affects an unknown code block of the component Process/Annotation Taxonomy Serializers. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Authorization bypass in the process and annotation taxonomy serializers in Scripta eScriptorium through 26.04.1 allows a remote authenticated user to run segmentation and transcription against other users' document parts, overwriting their content, via part primary keys supplied to a many=True related field whose queryset restriction was applied to the ManyRelatedField instead of its child_relation and therefore had no effect

It is possible to read the advisory at gitlab.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-18275 since 07/29/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/06/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Scripta

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• eScriptorium

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• 26.4.0
• 26.4.1

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