CVE-2022-36090org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore Improper Authorization check for inactive users
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 32% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
XWiki Platform Old Core is a core package for XWiki Platform, a generic wiki platform. Prior to versions 13.1.0.5 and 14.3-rc-1, some resources are missing a check for inactive (not yet activated or disabled) users in XWiki, including the REST service. This means a disabled user can enable themselves using a REST call. On the same way some resources handler created by extensions are not protected by default, so an inactive user could perform actions for such extensions. This issue has existed since at least version 1.1 of XWiki for instance configured with the email activation required for new users. Now it's more critical for versions 11.3-rc-1 and later since the maintainers provided the capability to disable user without deleting them and encouraged using that feature. XWiki 14.3-rc-1 and XWiki 13.10.5 contain a patch. There is no workaround for this other than upgrading XWiki.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 55 days later
· 55 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
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 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
- affected >= 1.1, < 13.10.5
- affected >= 14.0, < 14.3-RC-1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreGHSA-jgc8-gvcx-9vfx (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-jgc8-gvcx-9vfx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/e074d226d9b2b96a0a1ba4349d1b73a802842986 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19559 (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-2022-6854 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jgc8-gvcx-9vfx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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