Vulnerability · Published Apr 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-40305DNN has Force Friend Request Acceptance

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Dnn.Platform from dnnsoftware. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
NuGet	dotnetnuke.core	10.2.2	GHSA-fpj4-9qhx-5m6m

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
dnnsoftware	Dnn.Platform	>= 6.0.0, < 10.2.2

Weakness: CWE-285 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

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