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CVE-2022-24813: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in CreateWiki

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. Without the patch for this issue, anonymous comments can be made using Special:RequestWikiQueue when sent directly via POST. A patch for this issue is available in the `master` branch of CreateWiki's GitHub repository.

Affected products

• miraheze CreateWiki: before 2022-04-02 — fixed in 2022-04-02

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: miraheze CreateWiki 2022-04-02. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/d0ae79843d689832ccac765d6b1721e668d99ab9
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-9xvw-w66v-prvg
• https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T9018
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/d0ae79843d689832ccac765d6b1721e668d99ab9
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-9xvw-w66v-prvg
• https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T9018

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