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CVE-2022-36090

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-36090 is a critical access control bypass vulnerability affecting XWiki Platform Old Core versions prior to 13.10.5 and 14.3-rc-1. It allows inactive (disabled or unactivated) users to re-enable themselves or perform actions through certain extension handlers via a REST API call, bypassing intended security restrictions. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploit codes or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.1, < 13.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0092 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreFixed in: 13.10.5
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreFixed in: 14.3-rc-1

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-jgc8-gvcx-9vfxhigh

XWiki Platform Improper Authorization check for inactive users

Sep 16, 2022

References

github.com / xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/e074d226d9b2b96a0a1ba4349d1b73a802842986
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-jgc8-gvcx-9vfx
Third Party Advisory
jira.xwiki.org / browse/XWIKI-19559
ExploitVendor Advisory