CVE-2022-21683Comment reply notifications sent to incorrect users in wagtail
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Wagtail is a Django based content management system focused on flexibility and user experience. When notifications for new replies in comment threads are sent, they are sent to all users who have replied or commented anywhere on the site, rather than only in the relevant threads. This means that a user could listen in to new comment replies on pages they have not have editing access to, as long as they have left a comment or reply somewhere on the site. A patched version has been released as Wagtail 2.15.2, which restores the intended behaviour - to send notifications for new replies to the participants in the active thread only (editing permissions are not considered). New comments can be disabled by setting `WAGTAILADMIN_COMMENTS_ENABLED = False` in the Django settings file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
EPSS rose above 1%
0.97% → 1.0%
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIwagtailGHSA-xqxm-2rpm-3889 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advisories/GHSA-xqxm-2rpm-3889 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/5fe901e5d86ed02dbbb63039a897582951266afd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v2.15.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-0357 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xqxm-2rpm-3889 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-21683)Record last updated .