Cross Site Scripting in Wire Messages

published 2022-06-25 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-33570

cvss: 9.6; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

Wire is a secure messaging application. Wire is vulnerable to arbitrary HTML and Javascript execution via insufficient escaping when rendering `@mentions` in the wire-webapp. If a user receives and views a malicious message, arbitrary code is injected and executed in the context of the victim allowing the attacker to fully control the user account. Wire-desktop clients that are connected to a vulnerable wire-webapp version are also vulnerable to this attack. The issue has been fixed in wire-webapp 2022-05-04-production.0 and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. On-premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to docker tag 2022-05-04-production.0-v0.29.7-0-a6f2ded or wire-server 2022-05-04 (chart/4.11.0) or later. No known workarounds exist.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

wire wire-webapp 2022-05-04-production.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-23)

Exploit prediction

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	9.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

wireapp wire-webapp

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page

References

github.com /wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-jgv3-4j56-fvh6
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-29168
NVD CVE-2022-29168

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Adjust version range to eliminate huge number of CPEs.

Summary