CVE-2022-23617: Missing authorization in xwiki-platform

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions any user with edit right can copy the content of a page it does not have access to by using it as template of a new page. This issue has been patched in XWiki 13.2CR1 and 12.10.6. Users are advised to update. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

xwiki-platform: through 12.10.5; 13.0, 13.1

References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/30c52b01559b8ef5ed1035dac7c34aaf805764d5
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/b35ef0edd4f2ff2c974cbeef6b80fcf9b5a44554
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-gf7x-2j2x-7f73
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18430
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/30c52b01559b8ef5ed1035dac7c34aaf805764d5
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/b35ef0edd4f2ff2c974cbeef6b80fcf9b5a44554
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-gf7x-2j2x-7f73
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18430

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