CVE-2021-29459

XSS Cross Site Scripting

State: Published
Severity: 9.6 Critical
Published: Apr 20, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Mar 30, 2021

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It is possible to persistently inject scripts in XWiki versions prior to 12.6.3 and 12.8. Unregistred users can fill simple text fields. Registered users can fill in their personal information and (if they have edit rights) fill the values of static lists using App Within Minutes. There is no easy workaround except upgrading XWiki. The vulnerability has been patched on XWiki 12.8 and 12.6.3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.6 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
xwiki-platformxwiki	< 12.6.3Affected >= 12.6.4, < 12.8Affected

References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-5c66-v29h-xjh8

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