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TWiki Homepage Creation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

TWiki is prone to a vulnerability that could permit privilege escalation. This issue is due to a design error in the application; it fails to properly reset security settings.

An attacker with a valid account can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges to that of an administrator of the application. This may permit the attacker to alter site content; other attacks are also possible.







 

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