CVE-2022-36096

XWiki Platform vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in the deleted attachments list

State: Published
Severity: 8.9 High
Published: Sep 8, 2022
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Jul 15, 2022

Description

The XWiki Platform Index UI is an Index of all pages, attachments, orphans and deleted pages and attachments for XWiki Platform, a generic wiki platform. Prior to versions 13.10.6 and 14.3, it's possible to store JavaScript which will be executed by anyone viewing the deleted attachments index with an attachment containing javascript in its name. This issue has been patched in XWiki 13.10.6 and 14.3. As a workaround, modify fix the vulnerability by editing the wiki page `XWiki.DeletedAttachments` with the object editor, open the `JavaScriptExtension` object and apply on the content the changes that can be found on the fix commit.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.9 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
xwiki-platformxwiki	>= 2.2-milestone-1, < 13.10.6Affected >= 14.0, < 14.3Affected

References

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