Issue Summary

• The Organization Audit Logs are showing "Edited Confluence page" events with Anonymous User as Actor
  • Even if the Site has Anonymous Access disabled.
• Confluence Automations are triggered for pages
  • Even without any user action.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Setup a Confluence Automation, with the trigger being Page Edited in a Space.
2. In the same Space, create a new page as "Page A" and publish it
3. Copy the link / URL of "Page A"
4. Create a new page as "Page B"
5. Paste the URL to "Page A" and add it as a Smart Link (Inline, Card or Embed views)
6. Publish "Page B"
7. Navigate back to "Page A" and rename it to "Page C"
8. Navigate to "Page B" and notice the Smart Link has been updated from "Page A" to "Page C"
9. Review the Org Audit Logs for the Site => We see an entry saying an "Anonymous User has edited Page B"
10. Review the Automation => We see that the "Automation was triggered for Page B"

Expected Results

• Link refactoring should not trigger "page_updated" response

Actual Results

• Link refactoring sends "page_updated" response;
  1. Triggering automations for pages without user action
  2. Adds entries in the Org Audit logs, wrongly attributed to Anonymous Users

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available