Background
Sometime after March 31, 2024, a still unknown incompatibility between the Spring Boot Framework and Confluence led to edit permissions no longer being deleted . When an edit permission can’t be deleted the “Edit Permission Inheritance” might be incomplete/not consistent. This means that child pages might contain edit permissions which they shouldn’t.
The issue has been fixed on 2024-05-08.
What you should do
You should check whether all active “Edit Permission Inheritances” are consistent. To do so please perform the following steps:
Step | Details |
|---|---|
1 | Get all active Edit Permission Inheritances by navigating to the following URL: https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/search?cql=editinheritenabled%3D%22true%22 |
2 | Navigate to each of the pages returned by the search and click on the Edit Permission Inheritance icon.  |
3 | Once the dialog opens the app searches for an incomplete inheritance. In case it detects issues a warning like this one is shown: Inheritance seems to be inconsistent. 1 (2770927747) descendants seem suspicious. Fix those pages |
4 | Click on “Fix those pages” and wait until the action has been completed. Once completed the app searches for issues again and displays the results. |
5 | Move to the next page and re-start with step #2. |