Cross-site request forgery in YesWiki despam action
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
YesWiki before 4.7.0 contains a cross-site request forgery flaw in its despam action, which lets attackers delete or restore wiki pages. An unauthenticated remote attacker can plant an auto-submitting HTML form on a wiki page, so an administrator who views it sends requests that delete pages or overwrite current content. CWE-352 is cited for this flaw.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Description from the CNA
YesWiki before 4.7.0 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the despam action (tools/security/actions/despam.php) that lets unauthenticated attackers delete or restore pages through an administrator's session. Attackers can plant an auto-submitting raw HTML form on a wiki page, so an administrator who views it posts clean, suppr[], or rev[] parameters that delete PagePrincipale, configuration pages, or overwrite current content.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- 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
Remediation
Update YesWiki to version 4.7.0 or later, which fixes this flaw. The sources list no fixed version for YesWiki beyond 4.7.0.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
- Fix · CNA yeswiki (YesWiki) Fixed in 4.7.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
yeswiki 4.7.0
8 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 4 HIGH, 3 MEDIUM, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-80227 SQL injection in YesWiki Bazar entry creation via date_maj_fichePriority HIGH 77
- TI-2026-80223 Unauthenticated SSRF in YesWiki via raw-inclusion wiki syntaxPriority HIGH 70
- TI-2026-80226 Missing authorization in YesWiki ActivityPub sync lets servers alter entriesPriority HIGH 65
Timeline
- 2026-10-25 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-116204
- 2026-10-26 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-27 Alias added: GHSA-f9r4-jg86-f535
- 2026-11-03 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-03 Priority changed: LOW → HIGH
References
More YesWiki vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-37893 YesWiki has Unsafe eval() in Formula Calculator - Remote Code Execution (RCE) & Denial of Service (DoS) CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-34305 YesWiki: Unauthenticated SQL Injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-29089 YesWiki Vulnerable to Unauthenticated Site Backup Creation and Download CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2024-34399 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in YesWiki CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2026-37882 YesWiki: Unauthenticated arbitrary page deletion via `{{erasespamedcomments}}` action CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-80227 SQL injection in YesWiki Bazar entry creation via date_maj_fiche CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-116204 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-116204 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f9r4-jg86-f535 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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