Mattermost fails to check the "invite_guest" permission when inviting guests of other teams to a team, allowing a member with permissions to add other members but not to add guests to add a guest to a team as long as the guest was already a guest in another team of the server
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.8.2, 3.7.5, and 3.6.7. E-mail notifications can have spoofed links.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.4.3 and 4.3.3. Attackers could reconfigure an OAuth app in some cases where Mattermost is an OAuth 2.0 service provider.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.5.0, 4.4.5, and 4.3.4. It mishandled webhook access control in the EnableOnlyAdminIntegrations case.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.3.0, 4.2.1, and 4.1.2. An attacker could create fictive system-message posts via webhooks and slash commands, in the v3 or v4 REST API.
Mattermost Plugins versions <=11.5 11.1.5 10.13.11 11.3.4.0 fail to appropriately check for valid namespaces which allows plugin users to create subscriptions to groups that were not whitelisted via creating groups that share the same prefix as a whitelisted group. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00601
Mattermost Plugins versions <=11.5 11.1.5 10.13.11 11.3.4.0 fail to have API-level checks on which groups the user can create issues or attach comments to which allows a user that is member of multiple groups to create issues to a locked group via direct API requests. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00602
Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to validate team-specific upload_file permissions which allows a guest user to post files in channels where they lack upload_file permission via uploading files in a team where they have permission and reusing the file metadata in a POST request to a different team. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00553
Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail to check the create_post channel permission during post edit operations which allows an authenticated attacker with revoked posting privileges to modify their existing posts via direct API requests to the post update and patch endpoints.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00627
Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.3, 9.7.x <= 9.7.1, 9.6.x <= 9.6.1 and 8.1.x <= 8.1.12 fail to check if the email signup configuration option is enabled when a user requests to switch from SAML to Email. This allows the user to switch their authentication mail from SAML to email and possibly edit personal details that were otherwise non-editable and provided by the SAML provider.
Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail to validate that a remote cluster has access to a channel before processing membership removal requests during shared channel membership sync, which allows a malicious remote cluster to remove any user from any channel, including private channels, via crafted membership sync messages targeting channels the remote cluster is not authorized to access. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00576
Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.3, 9.6.x <= 9.6.1 and 8.1.x <= 8.1.12 fail to perform proper authorization checks which allows a member running a playbook in an existing channel to be promoted to a channel admin
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.1. Non-members of a channel could use the Channel PATCH API to modify that channel.
Mattermost versions 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 Fail to invalidate cached permalink preview data when a user loses channel access which allows the user to continue viewing private channel content via previously cached permalink previews until cache reset or relogin.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00580