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CVE-2022-41765

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-41765 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting MediaWiki versions prior to 1.35.8, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3. The flaw, residing in the HTMLUserTextField component, allows an unauthenticated attacker to determine the existence of hidden user accounts. With a CVSS score of 5.3, this vulnerability has low impact, as it only leaks user existence and does not allow for further compromise. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.35.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.36.0, < 1.37.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.38.0, < 1.38.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0064 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-41765Low

mediawiki: HTMLUserTextField exposes existence of hidden users

Dec 26, 2022

References

phabricator.wikimedia.org / T309894
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-24