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CVE-2021-25973: Publify - Improper Authorization Leads to Guest Signup Restriction Bypass

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-11-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

In Publify, 9.0.0.pre1 to 9.2.4 are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. “guest” role users can self-register even when the admin does not allow. This happens due to front-end restriction only.

Affected products

• publify/publify: from 9.0.0 through 9.2.4

References

• https://github.com/publify/publify/commit/3447e0241e921b65f6eb1090453d8ea73e98387e
• https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25973
• https://github.com/publify/publify/commit/3447e0241e921b65f6eb1090453d8ea73e98387e
• https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25973

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