Mattermost versions 10.8.x <= 10.8.3, 10.5.x <= 10.5.8, 10.10.x <= 10.10.0, 10.9.x <= 10.9.3 fail to sanitize file names which allows users with file upload permission to overwrite file attachment thumbnails via path traversal in file streaming APIs.

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.

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 10.5.x <= 10.5.7, 9.11.x <= 9.11.16 fail to negotiate a new token when accepting the invite which allows a user that intercepts both invite and password to send synchronization payloads to the server that originally created the invite via the REST API.

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 fails to check if hardened mode is enabled when overriding the username and/or the icon when posting a post. If settings allowed integrations to override the username and profile picture when posting, a member could also override the username and icon when making a post even if the Hardened Mode setting was enabled

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.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.8.0, 5.7.2, 5.6.5, and 4.10.7. Changes to e-mail addresses do not require credential re-entry.

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 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, 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 versions 10.4.x <= 10.4.2, 10.5.x <= 10.5.0, 9.11.x <= 9.11.10 fail to properly validate permissions for the API endpoint /plugins/playbooks/api/v0/signal/keywords/ignore-thread, allowing any user or attacker to delete posts containing actions created by the Playbooks bot, even without channel access or appropriate permissions.

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 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 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 fails to verify channel membership when linking a board to a channel allowing a low-privileged authenticated user to link a Board to a private channel they don't have access to, 

Mattermost fails to properly check the authorization of POST /api/v4/teams when passing a team override scheme ID in the request, allowing an authenticated attacker with knowledge of a Team Override Scheme ID to create a new team with said team override scheme.

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 11.5.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, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail to check the create_post channel permission during post edit operations which allows an authenticated attacker with revoked posting privileges to modify their existing posts via direct API requests to the post update and patch endpoints.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00627

Mattermost fails to use  innerText / textContent when setting the channel name in the webapp during autocomplete, allowing an attacker to inject HTML to a victim's page by create a channel name that is valid HTML. No XSS is possible though. 

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 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

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to sanitize client-supplied post metadata which allows an authenticated attacker to spoof permalink embeds impersonating other users via crafted PUT requests to the post update API endpoint.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00569

Mattermost versions 11.1.x <= 11.1.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.9, 11.2.x <= 11.2.1 and Mattermost Plugin Zoom versions <=1.11.0 fail to validate the authenticated user when processing {{/plugins/zoom/api/v1/channel-preference}}, which allows any logged-in user to change Zoom meeting restrictions for arbitrary channels via crafted API requests.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00558

Mattermost versions 11.1.x <= 11.1.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.9, 11.2.x <= 11.2.1 fail to properly validate login method restrictions which allows an authenticated user to bypass SSO-only login requirements via userID-based authentication. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00548

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.5, 9.11.x <= 9.11.15, 10.8.x <= 10.8.0, 10.7.x <= 10.7.2, 10.6.x <= 10.6.5 fail to properly validate channel membership when retrieving playbook run metadata, allowing authenticated users who are playbook members but not channel members to access sensitive information about linked private channels including channel name, display name, and participant count through the run metadata API endpoint.

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.

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 5.1. Non-members of a channel could use the Channel PATCH API to modify that channel.

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, 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 5.1. 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.

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.

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, 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 9.11.x <= 9.11.2, and 9.5.x <= 9.5.10 fail to protect the mfa code against replay attacks, which allows an attacker to reuse the MFA code within ~30 seconds

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 4.4.3 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 4.3.0, 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.

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 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

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 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 Plugins versions <=11.3 11.0.3 11.2.2 10.10.11.0 fail to implement authorisation checks on comment block modifications, which allows an authorised attacker with editor permission to modify comments created by other board members. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00559