CVE-2022-36090

HIGH

XWiki Platform Old Core <14.3-rc-1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0133
EPSS Percentile 80.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-285
Status published
Products (2)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-oldcore 1.1 - 13.10.5Maven
xwiki/xwiki 1.1 - 13.10.5
Published Sep 08, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026