Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affecting yeswiki/yeswiki package, versions <4.6.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-YESWIKIYESWIKI-21717113
  • published26 Oct 2026
  • disclosed2 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-104444  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-639  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade yeswiki/yeswiki to version 4.6.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in the editComment process of the comments API. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary pages or comments by sending crafted POST requests to the api/comments endpoint with a chosen pagetag value, thereby bypassing per-page write access controls and reparenting existing pages or comments.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1