TSPortal's Uncontrolled User Creation via Validation Side Effects Leads to Potential Denial of Service
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
TSPortal is the WikiTide Foundation’s in-house platform used by the Trust and Safety team to manage reports, investigations, appeals, and transparency work. Prior to version 34, a flaw in TSPortal allowed attackers to create arbitrary user records in the database by abusing validation logic. While validation correctly rejected invalid usernames, a side effect within a validation rule caused user records to be created regardless of whether the request succeeded. This could be exploited to cause uncontrolled database growth, leading to a potential denial of service (DoS). Version 34 contains a fix for the issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| miraheze | TSPortal | before 34 | 34 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | miraheze/ts-portal (Packagist) | before 34 | 34 | Patch available | GHSA-f346-8rp3-4h9h |
- TSPortal Vendormiraheze Affected before 34 Fixed in 34 Patch available CNA
- miraheze/ts-portal (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 34 Fixed in 34 Patch available GHSA-f346-8rp3-4h9h
Remediation
- Fix · CNA TSPortal (miraheze) Fixed in 34
- Fix · GHSA-f346-8rp3-4h9h miraheze/ts-portal (Packagist) Fixed in 34 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-33541
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f346-8rp3-4h9h
References
More miraheze vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-16562 Cross-Site Scripting in WikiDiscover CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2021-10196 wikiconfig API leaked private config variables set through ManageWiki CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2025-33333 DiscordNotifications allows DOS, SSRF, and possible RCE through requests to user-controlled URLs CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2025-23966 ManageWiki has SQL injection vulnerability in NamespaceMigrationJob CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
- TI-2026-23374 TSPortal: Anyone can forge self-deletion requests of any user CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
- TI-2024-32057 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Special:WikiDiscover when displaying wiki information in WikiDiscover CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
Sources
- CVE-2026-33541 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-33541 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f346-8rp3-4h9h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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