CVE-2006-2942: Twiki

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

TWiki 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to gain Twiki administrator privileges via a TWiki.TWikiRegistration form with a modified action attribute that references the Sandbox web instead of the user web, which can then be used to associate the user's login name with the WikiName of a member of the TWikiAdminGroup.

Affected products

• Twiki Twiki: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only

Published 2006-06-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.