CVE-2022-41930: XWiki

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-user-profile-ui is missing authorization to enable or disable users. Any user (logged in or not) with access to the page XWiki.XWikiUserProfileSheet can enable or disable any user profile. This might allow to a disabled user to re-enable themselves, or to an attacker to disable any user of the wiki. The problem has been patched in XWiki 13.10.7, 14.5RC1 and 14.4.2. Workarounds: The problem can be patched immediately by editing the page `XWiki.XWikiUserProfileSheet` in the wiki and by performing the changes contained in https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/5be1cc0adf917bf10899c47723fa451e950271fa.

Affected products

  • XWiki XWiki: from 12.4, before 13.10.7 (fixed in 13.10.7); from 14.0.0, before 14.4.2 (fixed in 14.4.2); version 14.4.3 only; version 14.4.4 only

Published 2022-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.