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
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in Jira
- Email us at Security mailing-list
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-76mp-659p-rw65
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32620
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-17942
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f9a677408ffb06f309be46ef9d8df1915d9099a4
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76mp-659p-rw65