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xwiki-platform-web-templates allows users to be created even when registration is disabled without validation via template macro

Publicada: 20.04.2023
Actualizado: 11.10.2026 11:21

Impact

If a guest has view rights on any document, it's possible to create a new user using the distribution/firstadminuser.wiki in the wrong context.

To reproduce:

On a wiki with view rights for guests but user registration disabled, open as guest <server>/xwiki/bin/view/Main?sheet=CKEditor.HTMLConverter&language=en&sourceSyntax=xwiki%2F2.1&stripHTMLEnvelope=true&fromHTML=false&toHTML=true&text=%7B%7Btemplate+name%3D%22distribution%2Ffirstadminuser.wiki%22+%2F%7D%7D where <server> is the URL of your XWiki installation.
Enter username and password of your choice.
Click "Register and login"

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1 and 14.10.1.

Workarounds

There is no known workaround other than upgrading.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19852 https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20400

For more information

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Software afectado

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Plataforma	Paquete	Versiones vulnerables	Corregida en
Java / Kotlin (Maven)	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates	>= 8.0-rc-1, < 14.10.1	14.10.1

Referencias

Puntuación CVSS 5/10

Vector CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Debilidad (CWE): CWE-284
Plataforma: Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Paquete: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates
Publicada: 20.04.2023
Actualizado: 11.10.2026 11:21

Fuentes y licencias

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-fp36-mjw5-fmgx - CC BY 4.0

Historial de vulnerabilidades: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates

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Primera → última: 02.2022 04.2026
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