# CVE-2026-33541: TSPortal's Uncontrolled User Creation via Validation Side Effects Leads to Potential Denial of Service

- Also known as: GHSA-F346-8RP3-4H9H
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 34
- Published: 2026-03-26 · Updated: 2026-03-27

## Affected

- miraheze TSPortal: fixed in 34
- miraheze/ts-portal (Packagist): fixed in 34

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on miraheze TSPortal, miraheze/ts-portal, upgrade to a fixed version (34) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/miraheze/TSPortal/security/advisories/GHSA-f346-8rp3-4h9h

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