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Users registered with email verification can self re-activate their disabled accounts

Moderate
surli published GHSA-76mp-659p-rw65 May 18, 2021

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (Maven)

Affected versions

> 11.6RC1

Patched versions

11.10.13, 12.6.7, 12.10.2, 13.0

Description

Impact

A user disabled on a wiki using email verification for registration can re-activate himself by using the activation link provided for his registration.

Patches

The problem has been patched in the following versions of XWiki: 11.10.13, 12.6.7, 12.10.2, 13.0.

Workarounds

It's possible to workaround the issue by resetting the validkey property of the disabled XWiki users. This can be done by editing the user profile with object editor.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-17942

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Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2021-32620

Weaknesses

No CWEs