# CVE-2022-29287: Information disclosure in n/a

> An attacker with user management rights can export sensitive user options, including hashed passwords, for any user via an insecure direct object reference.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:H/I:N/PR:H/S:U/UI:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Apr 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f28x-5fx8-2j2h

## What is CVE-2022-29287?

CVE-2022-29287 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, published on 15 Apr 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Kentico CMS before 13.0.66 has an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability. It allows an attacker with user management rights (default is Administrator) to export the user options of any user, even ones with higher privileges (like Global Administrators) than the current user. The exported XML contains every option of the exported user (even the hashed password).

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29287?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Kentico Xperience.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-29287?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-29287 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-29287 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29287 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Kentico Xperience

- [CVE-2025-2746](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2746/): Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-2747](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2747/): Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2019-10068](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-10068/): Kentico Xperience Deserialization of Untrusted Data (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-2749](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2749/): Kentico Xperience Path Traversal (high 7.2, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-17736](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17736/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-29287 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-29287 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, published on 15 Apr 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29287 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Kentico Xperience. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29287/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29287/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29287
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29287
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-29287

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29287/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.