CVE-2026-40305

DNN has Force Friend Request Acceptance

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Apr 17, 2026
Updated: Apr 20, 2026
Reserved: Apr 10, 2026

Description

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Starting in version 6.0.0 and prior to version 10.2.2, in the friends feature, a user could craft a request that would force the acceptance of a friend request on another user. Version 10.2.2 patches the issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-285 Improper Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Dnn.Platformdnnsoftware	>= 6.0.0, < 10.2.2Affected

References

https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/security/advisories/GHSA-fpj4-9qhx-5m6m
https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/releases/tag/v10.2.2

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