High severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2022· Updated Apr 23, 2025

Creation of new database tables through login form on PostgreSQL

CVE-2022-41932

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to make XWiki create many new schemas and fill them with tables just by using a crafted user identifier in the login form. This may lead to degraded database performance. The problem has been patched in XWiki 13.10.8, 14.6RC1 and 14.4.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreMaven	< 13.10.8	13.10.8
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreMaven	>= 14.0.0, < 14.4.2	14.4.2
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreMaven	>= 14.5.0, < 14.6-rc-1	14.6-rc-1

Affected products

Xwiki/Xwiki Platformv5
Range: < 13.10.8

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-4x5r-6v26-7j4vghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41932ghsaADVISORY
github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-4x5r-6v26-7j4vghsaWEB
jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19886ghsaWEB

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