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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2021-32620 json

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

published 2021-05-18 5 y ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-76mp-659p-rw65 , EUVD-2021-0988

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In versions prior to 11.10.13, 12.6.7, and 12.10.2, a user disabled on a wiki using email verification for registration canouldre-activate themself by using the activation link provided for his registration. The problem has been patched in the following versions of XWiki: 11.10.13, 12.6.7, 12.10.2, 13.0. It is 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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-core 11.10.13, 12.6.7, 12.10.2
  • xwiki xwiki 11.10.13, 12.6.7, 12.10.2, 13.0

Exploit prediction

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-core
>=11.6, <11.10.13
>=12.0, <12.6.7
>=12.10.0, <12.10.2
11.10.13
12.6.7
12.10.2

Affected products

  • xwiki xwiki-platform

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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