---
id: "GHSA-m687-p538-r5hp"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["GHSA-m687-p538-r5hp", "GO-2026-6739"]
title: "Vikunja: Permissive Cross-domain Security Policy trusts every localhost origin which should not be trusted in code.vikunja.io/api"
severity: "unknown"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: [{"name": "code.vikunja.io/api", "fixed": [], "affected": "all versions", "ecosystem": "go"}]
ecosystems: ["go"]
tags: ["go", "package", "self-hosted", "vikunja"]
not_affected_if: ["default-config"]
published_at: "2026-10-19T21:08:26+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-23T19:13:08+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-23T20:15:25+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "govuln", "url": "https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6739", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-23T19:13:08+00:00"}]
---

# Vikunja: Permissive Cross-domain Security Policy trusts every localhost origin which should not be trusted in code.vikunja.io/api

Vikunja's Go API module (code.vikunja.io/api) has a permissive cross-origin policy that trusts every localhost origin. A malicious page served from any localhost origin may be allowed to make cross-origin requests to the API.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## Affected

- go:code.vikunja.io/api affected all versions fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-10-23T19:13:08+00:00 govuln https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6739

## From the sources

Vikunja: Permissive Cross-domain Security Policy trusts every localhost origin which should not be trusted in code.vikunja.io/api.

NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.

(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)

The additional affected modules and versions are: .

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