CVE-2022-41936 Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in xwiki-platform-rest-server

What is CVE-2022-41936?

CVE-2022-41936 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 22 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The `modifications` rest endpoint does not filter out entries according to the user's rights. Therefore, information hidden from unauthorized users are exposed though the `modifications` rest endpoint (comments and page names etc). Users should upgrade to XWiki 14.6+, 14.4.3+, or 13.10.8+. Older versions have not been patched. There are no known workarounds.

Weakness: CWE-359

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-41936?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server. It affects 1 product.

Products include Xwiki Xwiki.

How do I fix CVE-2022-41936?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server to a fixed version for your release line: 14.4.3, 14.6 or 13.10.8.

Is CVE-2022-41936 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-41936 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Xwiki Xwiki

• CVE-2025-24893 XWiki Platform Eval Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-53836 XWiki Rendering is vulnerable to RCE attacks when processing nested macros Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-55662 XWiki allows remote code execution through the extension sheet Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-55877 XWiki allows remote code execution from account through macro descriptions and XWiki.XWikiSyntaxMacrosList Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-37901 XWiki Platform vulnerable to remote code execution from account via SearchSuggestConfigSheet Critical 10.0

All Xwiki Xwiki vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p88w-fhxw-xvcc.