Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.3, 9.6.x <= 9.6.1 and 8.1.x <= 8.1.12 fail to perform proper authorization checks which allows a member running a playbook in an existing channel to be promoted to a channel admin

Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.1, 11.6.x <= 11.6.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.19 fail to restrict metric configuration changes to the playbook being saved, which allows an authenticated user with team access to alter another user’s playbook metric settings via a crafted import or update request with a foreign metric ID. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00653

Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 Fail to enforce PermissionInviteUser when setting AllowOpenInvite or AllowedDomains during team creation (the check was only applied on update/patch), which allows an authenticated user holding PermissionCreateTeam but not PermissionInviteUser on the resulting team to configure invite-controlled team settings (make the team publicly joinable via open invite and/or constrain membership via allowed domains) that they are not permitted to set on an existing team via POST /api/v4/teams with allow_open_invite: true and/or a non-empty allowed_domains in the request body.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00655

Mattermost fails to normalize UTF confusable characters when determining if a preview should be generated for a hyperlink, allowing an attacker to trigger link preview on a disallowed domain using a specially crafted link.

Mattermost Apps Framework fails to verify that a secret provided in the incoming webhook request allowing an attacker to modify the contents of the post sent by the Apps.

Mattermost fails to properly check the permissions when executing commands allowing a member with no permissions to post a message in a channel to actually post it by executing channel commands.

When creating a playbook run via the /dialog API, Mattermost fails to validate all parameters, allowing an authenticated attacker to edit an arbitrary channel post.

Mattermost Plugins versions <=11.5 11.1.5 10.13.11 11.3.4.0 fail to have API-level checks on which groups the user can create issues or attach comments to which allows a user that is member of multiple groups to create issues to a locked group via direct API requests. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00602

Mattermost Plugins versions <=11.5 11.1.5 10.13.11 11.3.4.0 fail to appropriately check for valid namespaces which allows plugin users to create subscriptions to groups that were not whitelisted via creating groups that share the same prefix as a whitelisted group. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00601

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.3, 9.7.x <= 9.7.1, 9.6.x <= 9.6.1, 8.1.x <= 8.1.12 fail to enforce proper access control which allows a user to run a slash command in a channel they are not a member of via linking a playbook run to that channel and running a slash command as a playbook task command.

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6 fail to properly validate synced reactions, when shared channels are enabled, which allows a malicious remote to create arbitrary reactions on arbitrary posts

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.3.0. An attacker could use the WebSocket feature to send pop-up messages to users or change a post's appearance.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.10.0. An attacker can bypass the intended appearance of the Edited flag after changing a post's file ID.

Mattermost versions 10.4.x <= 10.4.2, 10.3.x <= 10.3.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.8 fail to fail to enforce channel conversion restrictions, which allows members with permission to convert public channels to private ones to also convert private ones to public

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.8.0, when Town Square is set to Read-Only. Users can pin or unpin a post.

Mattermost fails to check the "invite_guest" permission when inviting guests of other teams to a team, allowing a member with permissions to add other members but not to add guests to add a guest to a team as long as the guest was already a guest in another team of the server

Mattermost fails to check if compliance export is enabled when fetching posts of public channels allowing a user that is not a member of the public channel to fetch the posts, which will not be audited in the compliance export. 

Mattermost versions 10.4.x <= 10.4.2, 10.3.x <= 10.3.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.8, 10.5.x <= 10.5.0 fail to restrict bookmark creation and updates in archived channels, which allows authenticated users created or update bookmarked in archived channels

Mattermost versions 10.4.x <= 10.4.2, 10.3.x <= 10.3.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.8 fail to restrict command execution in archived channels, which allows authenticated users to run commands in archived channels.

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.1, 10.4.x <= 10.4.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.9 fail to prevent Wrangler posts from triggering AI responses. This vulnerability allows users without access to the AI bot to activate it by attaching the activate_ai override property to a post via the Wrangler plugin, provided both the AI and Wrangler plugins are enabled.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.1, 5.0.2, and 4.10.2. An attacker could use the invite_people slash command to invite a non-permitted user.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.2, 5.1.1, 5.0.3, and 4.10.3. Attackers could use multiple e-mail addresses to bypass a domain-based policy for signups.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.1. It allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions (for group-message channel creation) via the Group message slash command.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.1. Non-members of a channel could use the Channel PATCH API to modify that channel.

Mattermost versions 11.0.x <= 11.0.2, 10.12.x <= 10.12.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.4, 10.5.x <= 10.5.12 fail to validate user permissions when deleting comments in Boards, which allows an authenticated user with the editor role to delete comments created by other users.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.8.1, 4.7.4, and 4.6.3. An e-mail invite accidentally included the team invite_id, which leads to unintended excessive invitation privileges.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.1. An attacker can bypass intended access control (for direct-message channel creation) via the Message slash command.

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.3, 9.7.x <= 9.7.1, 9.6.x <= 9.6.1 and 8.1.x <= 8.1.12 fail to check if the email signup configuration option is enabled when a user requests to switch from SAML to Email. This allows the user to switch their authentication mail from SAML to email and possibly edit personal details that were otherwise non-editable and provided by the SAML provider.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.8.2, 3.7.5, and 3.6.7. E-mail notifications can have spoofed links.

Mattermost versions 9.10.x <= 9.10.2, 9.11.x <= 9.11.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.9 fail to check that the origin of the message in an integration action matches with the original post metadata which allows an authenticated user to delete an arbitrary post.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.4.3 and 4.3.3. Attackers could reconfigure an OAuth app in some cases where Mattermost is an OAuth 2.0 service provider.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.5.0, 4.4.5, and 4.3.4. It mishandled webhook access control in the EnableOnlyAdminIntegrations case.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.3.0, 4.2.1, and 4.1.2 when local storage for files is used. A System Admin can create arbitrary files.

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.7, 9.10.0, 9.8.x <= 9.8.2 fail to enforce permissions which allows a guest user with read access to upload files to a channel.

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0 and 9.5.x <= 9.5.6 fail to validate the source of sync messages and only allow the correct remote IDs, which allows a malicious remote to set arbitrary RemoteId values for synced users and therefore claim that a user was synced from another remote.

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6, 9.7.x <= 9.7.5 and 9.8.x <= 9.8.1 fail to disallow the modification of local channels by a remote, when shared channels are enabled, which allows a malicious remote to make an arbitrary local channel read-only.

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6, 9.7.x <= 9.7.5, 9.8.x <= 9.8.1 fail to disallow users to set their own remote username, when shared channels were enabled, which allows a user on a remote to set their remote username prop to an arbitrary string, which would be then synced to the local server as long as the user hadn't been synced before.

Mattermost fails to properly validate permissions when demoting and deactivating a user allowing for a system/user manager to demote / deactivate another manager

Mattermost fails to update the permissions of the current session for a user who was just demoted to guest, allowing freshly demoted guests to change group names.

Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13 fail to check if {{team_id}} was being changed when updating playbooks, allowing users with only {{Manage Playbook Configurations}} permission to change a playbook's team, bypassing manage members restriction via PUT api. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00552

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to validate team-specific upload_file permissions which allows a guest user to post files in channels where they lack upload_file permission via uploading files in a team where they have permission and reusing the file metadata in a POST request to a different team. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00553

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.7.3 and 3.6.5. A System Administrator can place a SAML certificate at an arbitrary pathname.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.3.0, 4.2.1, and 4.1.2. An attacker could create fictive system-message posts via webhooks and slash commands, in the v3 or v4 REST API.

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.7, 9.10.x <= 9.10.0 fail to enforce proper access controls which allows any authenticated user, including guests, to mark any channel inside any team as read for any user.

Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1 fail to validate team-level run_create permission against the target team when creating a playbook run which allows an authenticated team member to create runs in teams where they lack permission via specifying a different team ID in the run creation API request. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00629

Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13 fail to enforce the PostEditTimeLimit on non-message post fields which allows an authenticated user to modify post file attachments, props, and pin status after the edit window has expired via the post patch and update API endpoints.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00631

Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 Fail to enforce slash command trigger-word uniqueness during command updates which allows an authenticated team member with Manage Own Slash Commands permission to hijack and impersonate existing system or custom slash commands via editing their own slash command trigger to an already-registered trigger through the command update API. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00597

Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail to validate that a remote cluster has access to a channel before processing membership removal requests during shared channel membership sync, which allows a malicious remote cluster to remove any user from any channel, including private channels, via crafted membership sync messages targeting channels the remote cluster is not authorized to access. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00576

Mattermost fails to check whether a user is a guest when updating the tasks of a private playbook run allowing a guest to update the tasks of a private playbook run if they know the run ID.

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2 fail to verify run_create permission for empty playbookId, which allows team members to create unauthorized runs via the playbook run API. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00542