Mattermost versions <11.0 fail to properly enforce the "Allow users to view archived channels" setting which allows regular users to access archived channel content and files via the "Open in Channel" functionality from followed threads

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.4, 9.11.x <= 9.11.13 fail to properly restrict API access to team information, allowing guest users to bypass permissions and view information about public teams they are not members of via a direct API call to /api/v4/teams/{team_id}.

Mattermost versions 10.7.x <= 10.7.0, 10.5.x <= 10.5.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.12 fails to properly enforce access control restrictions for System Manager roles, allowing authenticated users with System Manager privileges to view team details they should not have access to via direct API requests to team endpoints, even when explicitly configured with 'No access' to Teams in the System Console.

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.5, 9.11.x <= 9.11.15, 10.8.x <= 10.8.0, 10.7.x <= 10.7.2, 10.6.x <= 10.6.5 fail to properly retrieve requestorInfo from playbooks handler for guest users which allows an attacker access to the playbook run.

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.5, 9.11.x <= 9.11.15, 10.8.x <= 10.8.0, 10.7.x <= 10.7.2, 10.6.x <= 10.6.5 fail to properly enforce channel member management permissions in playbook runs, allowing authenticated users without the 'Manage Channel Members' permission to add or remove users from public and private channels by manipulating playbook run participants when the run is linked to a channel.

Mattermost versions 10.4.x <= 10.4.2, 10.3.x <= 10.3.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.8 fail to enforce MFA on certain search APIs, which allows authenticated attackers to bypass MFA protections via user search, channel search, or team search queries.

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.1, 10.4.x <= 10.4.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.9 fail to check the "Allow Users to View Archived Channels" configuration when fetching channel metadata of a post from archived channels, which allows authenticated users to access such information when a channel is archived.

Mattermost versions 10.1.x <= 10.1.3, 10.4.x <= 10.4.1, 9.11.x <= 9.11.7, 10.3.x <= 10.3.2, 10.2.x <= 10.2.2 fail to restrict channel export of archived channels when the "Allow users to view archived channels" is disabled which allows a user to export channel contents when they shouldn't have access to it

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.2, 9.11.x <= 9.11.11 failed to properly verify a user's permissions when accessing groups, which allows an attacker to view group information via an API request.

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.1, 10.4.x <= 10.4.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.9 fail to properly enforce the 'Allow users to view/update archived channels' System Console setting, which allows authenticated users to view members and member information of archived channels even when this setting is disabled.

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.1, 9.11.x <= 9.11.9 fail to check if a file has been deleted when creating a bookmark which allows an attacker who knows the IDs of deleted files to obtain metadata of the files via bookmark creation.

Mattermost versions 11.1.x <= 11.1.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.9, 11.2.x <= 11.2.1 fail to properly validate team membership when processing channel mentions which allows authenticated users to determine the existence of teams and their URL names via posting channel shortlinks and observing the channel_mentions property in the API response. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00563

Mattermost versions 9.11.x <= 9.11.8 fail to properly perform authorization of the Viewer role which allows an attacker with the Viewer role configured with No Access to Reporting to still view team and site statistics.

Mattermost versions 10.11.x <= 10.11.4, 10.5.x <= 10.5.12 fail to validate the user permission when accessing the files and subscribing to the block in Boards, which allows an authenticated user to access other board files and was able to subscribe to the block from other boards that the user does not have access to

Mattermost versions 11.1.x <= 11.1.0, 11.0.x <= 11.0.5, 10.12.x <= 10.12.3, 10.11.x <= 10.11.7 fails to validate user channel membership when attaching Mattermost posts as comments to Jira issues, which allows an authenticated attacker with access to the Jira plugin to read post content and attachments from channels they do not have access to.

Mattermost versions 10.8.x <= 10.8.3, 10.5.x <= 10.5.8, 9.11.x <= 9.11.17, 10.9.x <= 10.9.2 fail to sanitize the team invite ID in the POST /api/v4/teams/:teamId/restore endpoint which allows an team admin with no member invite privileges to get the team’s invite id.

Mattermost fails to properly check the creator of an attached file when adding the file to a draft post, potentially exposing unauthorized file information.

Mattermost versions <11 fail to properly restrict access to archived channel search API which allows guest users to discover archived public channels via the `/api/v4/teams/{team_id}/channels/search_archived` endpoint

Mattermost versions 10.11.x <= 10.11.3, 10.5.x <= 10.5.11 fail to properly validate team membership permissions in the Add Channel Member API which allows users from one team to access user metadata and channel membership information from other teams via the API endpoint

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.10, 10.11.x <= 10.11.2 fail to properly validate guest user permissions when adding channel members which allows guest users to add any team members to their private channels via the `/api/v4/channels/{channel_id}/members` endpoint

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.8 fail to properly authorize access to archived channels when viewing archived channels is disabled, which allows an attacker to view posts and files of archived channels via file links.

Mattermost versions 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10, 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1 fail to apply view restrictions when retrieving group member IDs, which allows authenticated guest users to enumerate user IDs outside their allowed visibility scope via the group retrieval endpoint.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00594

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to properly validate team membership when searching channels which allows a removed team member to enumerate all public channels within a private team via the channel search API endpoint.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00568

Mattermost versions 9.10.x <= 9.10.2, 9.11.x <= 9.11.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.9 and 10.0.x <= 10.0.0 fail to properly authorize the requests to /api/v4/channels  which allows a User or System Manager, with "Read Groups" permission but with no access for channels to retrieve details about private channels that they were not a member of by sending a request to /api/v4/channels.

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to use consistent error responses when handling the /mute command which allows an authenticated team member to enumerate private channels they are not authorized to know about via differing error messages for nonexistent versus private channels. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00588

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.12, 10.11.x <= 10.11.2 fail to properly validate guest user permissions when accessing channel information which allows guest users to discover active public channels and their metadata via the `/api/v4/teams/{team_id}/channels/ids` endpoint

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.0.0. It offers superfluous APIs for a Team Administrator to view account details.

Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to validate that a username returned during bot registration belongs to a bot account, which allows an unprivileged attacker to intercept private messages sent by plugins via direct message channels by pre-registering a user account with a predictable plugin bot username.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00649

Mattermost is grouping calls in the /metrics endpoint by id and reports that id in the response. Since this id is the channelID, the public /metrics endpoint is revealing channelIDs.

Mattermost fails to redact from audit logs the user password during user creation and the user password hash in other operations if the experimental audit logging configuration was enabled (ExperimentalAuditSettings section in config).

Mattermost allows an attacker to request a preview of an existing message when creating a new message via the createPost API call, disclosing the contents of the linked message.

Mattermost fails to perform authorization checks in the /plugins/playbooks/api/v0/runs/add-to-timeline-dialog endpoint of the Playbooks plugin allowing an attacker to get limited information about a post if they know the post ID

Unrestricted information disclosure of all users in Mattermost version 6.7.0 and earlier allows team members to access some sensitive information by directly accessing the APIs.

Mattermost fails to sanitize ephemeral error messages, allowing an attacker to obtain arbitrary message contents by a specially crafted /groupmsg command.

Mattermost fails to honor the ShowEmailAddress setting when constructing a response to the "Regenerate Invite Id" API endpoint, allowing an attacker with team admin privileges to learn the team owner's email address in the response.

Mattermost fails to honor the ShowEmailAddress setting when constructing a response to the /api/v4/users/me/teams API endpoint, allowing an attacker with team admin privileges to learn the team owner's email address in the response.

Mattermost Sever fails to redact the DB username and password before emitting an application log during server initialization. 

Mattermost fails to properly sanitize the user object when updating the username, resulting in the password hash being included in the response body. 

Mattermost Desktop for MacOS fails to utilize the secure keyboard input functionality provided by macOS, allowing for other processes to read the keyboard input.

Mattermost versions 11.1.x <= 11.1.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.9, 11.2.x <= 11.2.1 fail to sanitize sensitive data in WebSocket messages which allows authenticated users to exfiltrate password hashes and MFA secrets via profile nickname updates or email verification events. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00560

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.3.0, 4.2.1, and 4.1.2. It discloses the team creator's e-mail address to members.

Mattermost versions 10.11.x <= 10.11.3, 10.5.x <= 10.5.11, 10.12.x <= 10.12.0 fail to sanitize user data which allows system administrators to access password hashes and MFA secrets via the POST /api/v4/users/{user_id}/email/verify/member endpoint

Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail to sanitize sensitive configuration fields in the Mattermost Calls plugin which allows an attacker with access to a support packet to obtain TURN server credentials via the plaintext values present in the exported plugin configuration.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00605

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.1.0, 4.0.4, and 3.10.3. It allows attackers to discover team invite IDs via team API endpoints.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.1.0, 4.0.4, and 3.10.3. It allows attackers to discover a team invite ID by requesting a JSON document.

Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail to sanitize sensitive configuration fields before including them in support packet generation, which allows a Mattermost System Admin or any party with access to a support packet to obtain sensitive credentials in plaintext via downloading a support packet from the System Console.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00607

Mattermost Desktop fails to set an appropriate log level during initial run after fresh installation resulting in logging all keystrokes including password entry being logged. 

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.2.0, 4.1.1, and 4.0.5. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive information (user statuses) via a REST API version 4 endpoint.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.8.1, 4.7.4, and 4.6.3. WebSocket events were accidentally sent during certain user-management operations, violating user privacy.

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 and 9.8.0 fail to sanitize the RemoteClusterFrame payloads before audit logging them which allows a high privileged attacker with access to the audit logs to read message contents.