Property for enabling/disabling viewage of Jira administrators

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-22096. panel As of JRA-21004, it also happened that the Administrator page does not show the administrators anymore. This patch is enables...

500page.jsp Improvements

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-19601. panel Some further improvements to the 500page.jsp: The following should not appear if there is no stack trace: quote...

XSS Bookmark vulnerabilities

The Add bookmark page is vulnerable to XSS attacks...

The current CAPTCHA implementation may not be secure

The current CAPTCHA implementation displays a different message if the CAPTCHA is being displayed and the captcha is entered correctly but the password for the user is not, than if the CAPTCHA is entered incorrectly. This is giving away more information than a login screen should. The error messa...

autocomplete box in page restrictions finds deleted users, wrong usernames

We recently migrated our user management from JIRA to Crowd, our Confluence instance used to link to JIRA for authentication, and now links to Crowd. We now found that, when editing the restrictions on individual pages, the autocomplete feature in that dialog acts strange: Users that have been...

Links from indexbrowser.jsp are vulnerable to XSS attacks

CONF-16888 has introduced or re-introduced an XSS vulnerability. To reproduce: Create a new user, and for the Full Name use: noformatalert'Vulnerable'noformat Go to ../admin/indexbrowser.jsp and find the entry Click on the entry, and the script is executed. This also happens for other content typ...

EPIC FAIL: new user signups result in plain text email with all login details

After signing up to a JIRA instance, I got an email which simply amazed me - it contained: My username My email address My full name My password It was all there, right before me, in a plain-text unencrypted email sent across a public network. WTF?! I'm not sure which universe that's considered a...

Directory traversal in Profile Picture path - leads to privilege escalation in < 3.0

Confluence allows its users to specify a "Profile Picture," an image that appears on many pages related to the user. A user can either upload a custom image, or select one from a set provided by Confluence. Confluence uses the /users/doeditmyprofilepicture.action path to process requests to chang...

XSS vulnerability in space name when page move would create a duplicate

Create a space called alert"XSS"; Find a page named 'Home' in a different space Move this page, choosing the previously created space as the destination The move will fail due to the duplicate page name, and the script will be run...

XSS in concurrent edit notification

If a page is being editted by noformat alert'hacked' noformat and another user edits it at the same time, they are vulnerable to a potential XSS attack...

CSRF attack message thrown when JSESSIONID is changed

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-15779. panel Symptoms: Anything that is using DWR will fail. Meaning: page editor is fully or partially unusable and it may...

XSS vulnerability can be exploited with the viewppt macro

Upload a file test.ppt Use markup: noformatviewppt:test.ppt|height=alert"xss"|width=alert"xss"noformat The scripts will be executed when the page is loaded...

Issue attachments, need a functionality of Security Schemes

In our JIRA instance both customers and developers have access to issues. We would like to have a security scheme functionality in connection to issue's attachments. In other words, we would like to attach a documentation which would not be visible to customers or other groups of JIRA users...

Fix header injection vulnerabilities

A number of vulnerabilities were found during JRA-16024 which expose JIRA to header injection attacks: Note that different application server configurations may expose or hide the presence of a header injection vulnerability. Standalone tomcat is usually not vulnerable. Tomcat 5.5.26 redirects al...

XSS in the Widget Connector

I've been working with the widget connector today and reading through the code when I noticed that the media uris are not being handled securely. try this: widget:url=youtube.com/v="alert'xss' In general there is not a unified way to prevent issues like this in the widget extensions and it is up ...

Ability to grant Import/Export privileges to a group or a user

In our JIRA environment, we have several projects where each of the project admins uploads tasks from a CSV file into their respective project. Inorder for these project admins have the upload permissions, they need to be part of the JIRA System Administration group. This is unacceptable and is a...

Word import with Office Connector can overwrite existing content without permission

It's possible under a specific set of circumstances that a user could perform actions they may otherwise be unauthorized to perform using the document import feature of the Office Connector. The specific actions would be editing or deleting a page they don't have permission to change. Note that...

Word import with Office Connector can overwrite existing content without permission

It's possible under a specific set of circumstances that a user could perform actions they may otherwise be unauthorized to perform using the document import feature of the Office Connector. The specific actions would be editing or deleting a page they don't have permission to change. Note that...

XSS in pagetree plugin

The pagetree plugin is vulnerable for XSS injecting the code in the treeId field. Example below:...

XSS in bookmarks plugin

The bookmarking code under the url http://localhost:8080/plugins/socialbookmarking/updatebookmark.action is vulnerable to XSS attacks using the spaceKey parameter: submitting the following code will execute javascript: spaceKey=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealertdocument.cookie%3C/script%3E%22%3E IMPORTANT:...

Pages that inherit page restrictions are not respecting those restrictions after upgrade to Confluence 2.9

Tested and verified in both customer enviornment and in test enviornment. In the event that you have a parent page restriction and a child page that inherits that restriction, upon upgrade, 2.9 will only respect the explicit parent permission in terms of security trims and actual access but not...

XSS vulnerability in social bookmarking plugin bundled in Confluence

The social bookmarking plugin is bundled in Confluence 2.7.x and Confluence 2.6.x. As such this vulnerability affects all 2.7.x and 2.6.x instances even if you do not use the plugin or do not have the Add Bookmark Web Item enabled. The updatebookmark.action URL is vulnerable on these parameters: ...

XSS vulnerability in browseusers.vm

browseusers.vm does not escape usernames...

Watchers can see comments that they are not supposed to see via email notifications

We have email notifications switched on for our live version of JIRA. If you watch an issue then you receive an email each time somebody comments on that issue. This email contains information about the issue including the comment that was added. This is great as it allows people to keep up to da...

Seperate label permissions from edit issue permission

In 3.11 the labels plugin changed so that manipulating labels required the "Edit Issue" permission. This drastically impacted our organizations workflow, as we'd just introduced labels in our previous upgrade, and we don't give "edit issues" to all users, but we do want all authenticated users to...

JIRA Portlet Macro not displaying when authenticating using the trusted application between JIRA and Confluence

We're having issues using the JIRA portlet macro jiraportlet on pages inside Confluence. Whenever we try to use this macro using the trust between JIRA and Confluence for authentication, the macro does not display on the page. There aren't any errors, it just doesn't appear. code...

Velocity does not automatically escape HTML entities when substituting variables

Velocity should automatically escape encode HTML entities in variables it interpolates in markup. This would remove the need for explicitly escaping variables using $generalUtil.htmlEncode, and fix lots of XSS bugs including ones we haven't discovered yet. This affects all versions of Confluence...

CommentService validation methods do not check user's security level

The validateCommentUpdate, hasPermissionToUpdate and hasPermissionToDelete methods on DefaultCommentService check the user's comment-related permissions but neglect to check whether they have a role/group security level viewable by the user attempting to delete a comment...

Allow embedding multimedia content located on remote servers

Re: CSP-8387 Currently, when embedding multimedia content on Confluence you are restricted to embedding files located on the Confluence server. The page http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF20/Embedding+Multimedia+Content singles out "security reasons" as the reason for this limitation. In...

Project Role Modifications not reflected in Issue Security Scheme

If you modify users/groups in a project's project role and this project uses an issue security scheme, you must remove the role and re-add it to the issue security scheme for the role changes to take effect. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Need to be the admin of a project whose issue creation screen has...

Support nested groups

panel:title=Resolved in Confluence 3.5|borderStyle=solid|borderColor=3C78B5|titleBGColor=3C78B5|bgColor=E7F4FA We are pleased to advise that support for nested groups is available in Confluence 3.5. You can find instructions on how to configure nested groups in our documentation: Configuring User...

A user cannot set the security level to none if the default security level is set

Selecting 'none' always creates an issue with the default security level...

LDAP authentication falls back to database check when password is incorrect

If a user is present in LDAP, but the entered password is incorrect, JIRA ought to immediately fail to authenticate them. Instead in 3.2-beta it delegates to the database, and checks the password there...

A page containing the rss-macro is not displayed if the requested rss-feed is "down"

A page containing the rss-feed macro is not shown if the requested rss-feed is "down" there's no response sent to the browser. It would certainly be better if the page could be displayed anyway; perhaps with a message stating that the feed contents can't be fetched...

Spam-protection

We need something like MT-Blacklist: the ability to define URL patterns that flag a page and/or comment as spam. It shouldn't be too hard to do - we already track URL links. The UI will need some thought though what do you do if you define a URL as spam, and it's in a page? Revert the page back t...

Prototype Pollution axios Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This is a vulnerability in a non-Atlassian dependency. Atlassian's application of this dependency presents a lower, non-critical assessed risk. This Critical severity Prototype Pollution vulnerability was introduced in versions 10.3.0 and 11.3.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server. This...

HTTP Request Smuggling io.netty:netty-codec-http Dependency in Jira Service Management Data Center

This is a vulnerability in a non-Atlassian dependency. Atlassian's application of this dependency presents a lower, non-critical assessed risk. This Critical severity HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability was introduced in versions 5.16.0, 5.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0,...

File Inclusion in Jira Service Management Data Center

This High severity File Inclusion vulnerability was introduced in versions 5.15.2, 5.16.1, 5.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.2, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.7.1, 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, and 11.3.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center. This File Inclusion vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.1...

MITM (Man-in-the-Middle) com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp Dependency in Jira Service Management Data Center and Server

This High severity MITM Man-in-the-Middle vulnerability was introduced in version 10.3.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center and Server. This vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of code:java CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Ncode allows an unauthenticated attack...

Improper Authorization commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils Dependency in Jira Service Management Data Center

This High severity Improper Authorization vulnerability was introduced in versions 5.12.1, 5.15.2, 5.16.0, 5.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, and 10.7.1 of Jira Service Management Data Center. This Improper Authorization vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.8 and a...

File Inclusion node-tar Dependency in Confluence Data Center

This High severity File Inclusion vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.3, 9.1.0, 9.2.5, 9.2.20, 9.5.1, 10.1.2, 10.2.0 and 10.2.11 of Confluence Data Center. This File Inclusion vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.2 and a CVSS Vector of...

Path Traversal node-tar Dependency in Jira Software Data Center

This High severity Path Traversal vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.15.2, 9.16.0, 9.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.7.1, 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, and 11.3.1 of Jira Software Data Center. This Path Traversal vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.8 and a CVS...

DoS (Denial of Service) in Confluence Data Center and Server

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability known as CVE-2020-28469 was introduced in versions 7.19 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This DoS Denial of Service vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H allows an...

XSS (Cross Site Scripting) dompurify Dependency in Jira Service Management Data Center and Server

This High severity XSS Cross Site Scripting vulnerability was introduced in versions 5.15.2, 5.16.0, 5.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.7.1, 11.0.0, and 11.1.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center and Server. This XSS Cross Site Scripting vulnerability, with a CV...

DoS (Denial of Service) org.apache.commons:commons-fileupload2-core Dependency in Crowd Data Center and Server

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability was introduced in version 7.1.0 of Crowd Data Center and Server. This DoS Denial of Service vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to access...

XXE (XML External Entity Injection) org.apache.tika:tika-core Dependency in Crowd Data Center and Server

This is a vulnerability in a non-Atlassian Crowd dependency. Atlassian's application of this dependency presents a lower, non-critical assessed risk. This High severity XXE XML External Entity Injection vulnerability was introduced in versions 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 7.1.0, and 7.1.1 of Crowd Data...

XXE (XML External Entity Injection) Tika Dependency Vulnerability in Crowd Data Center and Server

This Crowd release includes updates to our Apache Tika dependency in response to CVE-2025-66516. Our security team has assessed that the current scope of this CVE does not present the same critical risk in our products, as our use of the dependency doesn’t support the known path for exploitation...

DoS (Denial of Service) in Crowd Data Center

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability was introduced in version 6.3.1 of Crowd Data Center. This DoS Denial of Service vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.7, allows an attacker to cause a resource to be unavailable for its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disruptin...

DoS (Denial of Service) Third-Party Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity Third-Party Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.12.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, and 10.6.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server. This Third-Party Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of...

PrivEsc (Privilege Escalation) in Jira Service Management Data Center

This High severity PrivEsc Privilege Escalation vulnerability was introduced in versions 5.12.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, and 10.5.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center. This PrivEsc Privilege Escalation vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.2, allows an attacker to perform actions as a higher-privileg...