CVE-2022-36093· NVD / CVE Program· CNA GitHub_M

XWiki Platform Web Templates vulnerable to Unauthorized User Registration Through the Distribution Wizard

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.87% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 58.6% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web (Maven) 14.3-rc-1, 13.10.5; org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates (Maven) 14.3-rc-1, 13.10.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web (Maven) 14.3-rc-1, 13.10.5; org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates (Maven) 14.3-rc-1, 13.10.5 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

XWiki Platform Web Templates are templates for XWiki Platform, a generic wiki platform. By passing a template of the distribution wizard to the xpart template, user accounts can be created even when user registration is disabled. This also circumvents any email verification. Before versions 14.2 and 13.10.4, this can also be exploited on a private wiki, thus potentially giving the attacker access to the wiki. Depending on the configured default rights of users, this could also give attackers write access to an otherwise read-only public wiki. Users can also be created when an external authentication system like LDAP is configured, but authentication fails unless the authentication system supports a bypass/local accounts are enabled in addition to the external authentication system. This issue has been patched in XWiki 13.10.5 and 14.3RC1. As a workaround, one may replace `xpart.vm`, the entry point for this attack, by a patched version from the patch without updating XWiki.

HighCVSS 7.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Auth bypass

GHSA-h5j3-5x63-p8jv

Published: Sep 8, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.8% · 58th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 28 / 40 · 7.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.8%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 7.1
CNA · GitHub_M: 8.5; 1.4 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
xwiki	xwiki	cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

xwiki xwiki8.0 and later · before 13.10.5
xwiki xwiki14.0 and later · before 14.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

xwiki xwiki-platform
- >= 8.0-rc-1, < 13.10.5, >= 14.0, < 14.3-rc-1affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web	from 14.0 · before 14.3-rc-1	14.3-rc-1
Maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web	from 8.0-rc-1 · before 13.10.5	13.10.5
Maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates	from 14.0 · before 14.3-rc-1	14.3-rc-1
Maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates	before 13.10.5	13.10.5

Same product

xwiki: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-24893Remote code execution as guest via SolrSearchMacros request in xwikiKEV
99Now
CVE-2024-21650XWiki Remote Code Execution vulnerability via user registration
67This week
CVE-2023-46731Remote code execution through the section parameter in Administration as guest in XWiki Platform
66This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-36091Sep 8, 2022 · XWiki Platform Web Templates vulnerable to Missing Authorization and Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-36092Sep 8, 2022 · XWiki Platform Old Core vulnerable to Authentication Bypass Using the Login Action
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-36094Sep 8, 2022 · XWiki Platform Web Parent POM vulnerable to XSS in the attachment history
55Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Maven:org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web	13.10.5	Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web	14.3-rc-1	Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates	13.10.5	Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates	14.3-rc-1	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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xwiki/xwiki-platformcommit 70c64c2

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2022-360990 days apartXWiki Platform Wiki UI Main Wiki Eval Injection vulnerability
58Plan
CVE-2022-361000 days apartXWiki Platform Applications Tag and XWiki Platform Tag UI vulnerable to Eval Injection
57Plan
CVE-2022-4193176 days apartImproper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') in xwiki-platform-icon-ui
35Monitor
CVE-2022-4193476 days apartImproper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code in org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-menu-ui
35Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: low · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: Low
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

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References

github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/70c64c23f4404f33289458df2a08f7c4be022755

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