diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8d9295ef..5278f85a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ a version is cut.
   (found, diagnosed and fixed by [@denkfabrik-li](https://github.com/denkfabrik-li) in
   [#1698](https://github.com/projectsend/projectsend/pull/1698))
 
+- **The dashboard's recent activity now respects a limited role's boundary.** A staff role can be
+  limited to its own assigned clients, and the activity page has always honoured that — showing only
+  entries about files, folders and clients in that person's scope. The dashboard's Recent activity
+  widget did not: it listed the eight most recent entries from the whole installation, file names
+  and all, to someone who would be refused the files themselves. The Client Manager role ships with
+  the permission this widget needs, so any installation using it was affected. Both screens now
+  answer the same way. Nothing changes for an administrator or any unrestricted role.
+
 ## 2.1.0 — 18 August 2026
 
 Updating, mostly. ProjectSend now tells you when there is a new version, ends an update somewhere
diff --git a/app/Modules/Audit/Http/Controllers/DashboardController.php b/app/Modules/Audit/Http/Controllers/DashboardController.php
index 88b5a877..5f9c69df 100644
--- a/app/Modules/Audit/Http/Controllers/DashboardController.php
+++ b/app/Modules/Audit/Http/Controllers/DashboardController.php
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use App\Models\User;
 use App\Modules\Api\ApiUsage;
 use App\Modules\Audit\Action;
 use App\Modules\Audit\ActivityLog;
+use App\Modules\Audit\ActivityLogScope;
 use App\Modules\Audit\ActivityPresenter;
 use App\Modules\Audit\DashboardWidgetPreferences;
 use App\Modules\Clients\ClientStorageUsage;
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ class DashboardController extends Controller
         private readonly TimezoneRegistry $timezones,
         private readonly SystemEnvironment $environment,
         private readonly ActivityPresenter $presenter,
+        private readonly ActivityLogScope $scope,
     ) {}
 
     public function __invoke(Request $request): Response
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ class DashboardController extends Controller
                 ? $this->topClientsByStorage()
                 : null,
             'largest_files' => $canStatistics && $prefs->isEnabled($user, 'largest_files') ? $this->largestFiles($user) : null,
-            'recent' => $canActionsLog && $prefs->isEnabled($user, 'recent') ? $this->recentActivity() : null,
+            'recent' => $canActionsLog && $prefs->isEnabled($user, 'recent') ? $this->recentActivity($user) : null,
             'system' => $canSystem && $prefs->isEnabled($user, 'system') ? $this->systemInfo() : null,
             // Both editions — informational content, not an update action,
             // so no Capability check alongside the permission (unlike
@@ -398,13 +400,21 @@ class DashboardController extends Controller
     /**
      * @return array<int, array<string, mixed>>
      */
-    private function recentActivity(): array
+    private function recentActivity(User $viewer): array
     {
+        // Narrowed through ActivityLogScope, exactly as the activity page and
+        // the download history are. `view_actions_log` is not the whole
+        // answer for a client-scoped viewer: a log entry carries the
+        // subject's name, so an unscoped one reads out the name of every
+        // file in the installation and who touched it, to somebody who gets
+        // a 403 on the files themselves. The Client Manager role ships with
+        // the permission, so this is the default configuration.
+        //
         // Presented through the shared ActivityPresenter, not rebuilt inline —
         // the same sentence-ready shape the activity page and detail panels
         // use. Rebuilding it here once dropped `origin`, which is the only
         // thing that tells an actorless "Anonymous" entry from a "System" one.
-        return ActivityLog::query()
+        return $this->scope->apply(ActivityLog::query(), $viewer)
             ->orderByDesc('created_at')
             ->orderByDesc('id')
             ->limit(8)
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Audit/DashboardTest.php b/tests/Feature/Audit/DashboardTest.php
index 1d75c56f..873967a3 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Audit/DashboardTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Audit/DashboardTest.php
@@ -336,3 +336,63 @@ test('the recent-activity widget carries origin so an actorless entry is not mis
             ->where('recent.0.actor_name', null),
     );
 });
+
+test('the recent-activity widget shows a scoped viewer only what their own log would', function () {
+    // view_actions_log is not the whole answer for a client-scoped viewer:
+    // an entry carries the subject's name, so an unscoped widget reads out
+    // the name of every file in the installation to somebody who gets a
+    // 403 on the files themselves. The Client Manager role ships with the
+    // permission, so this is the default configuration, not an exotic one.
+    $role = Role::query()->create(['name' => 'Scoped log reader', 'client_scoped' => true]);
+    RolePermission::query()->insert([
+        ['role_id' => $role->id, 'permission' => 'view_actions_log'],
+        ['role_id' => $role->id, 'permission' => 'upload'],
+    ]);
+
+    $scoped = User::factory()->create(['role_id' => $role->id]);
+    $client = User::factory()->client()->create();
+    $scoped->assignedClients()->attach($client->id);
+
+    $theirs = File::factory()->create(['uploaded_by' => $this->admin->id, 'name' => 'Q3 delinquent accounts']);
+
+    $mine = File::factory()->create(['uploaded_by' => $this->admin->id, 'name' => 'Statement']);
+    shareFileWith($mine, $client);
+
+    foreach ([$theirs, $mine] as $file) {
+        ActivityLog::query()->create([
+            'actor_id' => $this->admin->id,
+            'actor_name' => $this->admin->name,
+            'actor_type' => $this->admin->type->value,
+            'action' => Action::FileUploaded,
+            'subject_type' => $file->getMorphClass(),
+            'subject_id' => $file->id,
+            'subject_name' => $file->name,
+            'created_at' => now(),
+        ]);
+    }
+
+    $this->actingAs($scoped)->get('/dashboard')->assertInertia(
+        fn (AssertableInertia $page) => $page
+            ->has('recent', 1)
+            ->where('recent.0.replacements.subject', 'Statement'),
+    );
+});
+
+test('an unscoped viewer still sees the whole installation in the widget', function () {
+    $file = File::factory()->create(['uploaded_by' => $this->admin->id, 'name' => 'Anything']);
+
+    ActivityLog::query()->create([
+        'actor_id' => $this->admin->id,
+        'actor_name' => $this->admin->name,
+        'actor_type' => $this->admin->type->value,
+        'action' => Action::FileUploaded,
+        'subject_type' => $file->getMorphClass(),
+        'subject_id' => $file->id,
+        'subject_name' => 'Anything',
+        'created_at' => now(),
+    ]);
+
+    $this->actingAs($this->admin)->get('/dashboard')->assertInertia(
+        fn (AssertableInertia $page) => $page->has('recent', 1)->where('recent.0.replacements.subject', 'Anything'),
+    );
+});