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

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

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