Cross-site request forgery in Atlassian Confluence Questions
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
The acceptAnswer resource in Atlassian Confluence Questions before version 2.6.6, the bundled version of Confluence Questions was updated to a fixed version in Confluence version 6.9.0, allows remote attackers to modify a comment into an answer via a Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Confluence Questions (Atlassian) Fixed in 2.6.6
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Atlassian Confluence Questions 2.6.6
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2018-09630 Cross-site request forgery in Atlassian Confluence QuestionsPriority LOW 30
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-13394
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xwh4-g756-hmwc
References
More Atlassian Questions For Confluence vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-09600 Hard-coded credentials in Atlassian Questions For Confluence KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2018-09630 Cross-site request forgery in Atlassian Confluence Questions CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2018-13394 · CVE Program
- CVE-2018-13394 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xwh4-g756-hmwc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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