GHSA-p5v9-g8w8-5q4vCriticalCVSS 9.1

Missing Authorization to enable or disable users in org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-user-profile-ui

Published
November 21, 2022
Last Modified
January 22, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Any user (logged in or not) with access to the page XWiki.XWikiUserProfileSheet can enable or disable any user profile. This might allow to a disabled user to re-enable themselves, or to an attacker to disable any user of the wiki.

Patches

The problem has been patched in XWiki 13.10.7, 14.5RC1 and 14.4.2.

Workarounds

The problem can be patched immediately by editing the page XWiki.XWikiUserProfileSheet in the wiki and by performing the changes contained in https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/5be1cc0adf917bf10899c47723fa451e950271fa.

References

  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/5be1cc0adf917bf10899c47723fa451e950271fa
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19792

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🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-user-profile-ui:>= 12.4, < 13.10.7
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-user-profile-ui:>= 14.0.0, < 14.4.2

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