CVE-2022-36093

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

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: September 8, 2022 at 05:25 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:52 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXwiki

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 13.10.5v < 14.3-rc-114.0 ≤ v < 14.38.0 ≤ v < 13.10.5
Affected range stops below 13.10.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 14.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 14.3-rc-1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-287CWE-288

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