Wheels up to 4.1.2 nestedProperties privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Wheels up to 4.1.2. It has been declared as critical. This impacts the function nestedProperties. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-111447. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Wheels up to 4.1.2. Affected is the function nestedProperties. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Wheels 1.1 through 4.1.2 resolves nestedProperties() records by posted primary key without checking that they belong to the parent being saved. A user able to submit a nested form for their own parent can update and reassign another parent's hasMany or hasOne rows, or delete them when allowDelete=true. Nested belongsTo records can also be edited by posting another associated record's key. New child rows with composite primary keys not made up of foreign keys retain posted key values, allowing the request to choose their identity. This is fixed in 4.2.0.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-111447 since 10/16/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 4.2.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Wheels

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• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2

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