Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in CreateWiki
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-24813
References
More miraheze Createwiki vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-19666 Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-32056 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Special:RequestWikiQueue when displaying sitename in CreateWiki CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-19652 CreateWiki's wiki request suppression ignores the suppression settings set by the suppressor CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9
Sources
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