Users granted this permission can select their own user to impersonate when viewing Jira data on Custom Jira Charts on Confluence.

They will also be able to edit charts that have been created where they are the impersonation user.

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Users granted this permission can select ANY CONFLUENCE USER to impersonate when viewing Jira data in Confluence on Custom Jira Charts.

This is a very powerful permission - for example:

• Tom is an external contractor

• Tom is granted the permission Impersonate Other Users for Custom Jira Charts

• Tom creates a Custom Jira Chart on a Confluence page and impersonates Becky who is an administrator

• The chart Tom creates shows the number of issues in the project “Top Secret” that only Becky should be able to see

This is a type of privilege escalation so you should be extremely careful when deciding who is given this permission.

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