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The reset password form reveal users email address

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 1, 2021 in xwiki/xwiki-platform • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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

Affected versions

>= 13.1, < 13.2

Patched versions

13.2

Description

Impact

The reset password form reveals the email address of users just by giving their username.

Patches

The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.2RC1.

Workarounds

It's possible to manually modify the resetpasswordinline.vm to perform the changes made in xwiki/xwiki-platform@0cf7162#diff-14a3132e3986b1f5606dd13d9d8a8bb8634bec9932123c5e49e9604cfd850fc2

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18400

For more information

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References

@surli surli published to xwiki/xwiki-platform Jul 1, 2021
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 1, 2021
Reviewed Jul 2, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 2, 2021
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2021-32731

GHSA ID

GHSA-h4m4-pgp4-whgm

Source code

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