CVE-2023-29522

Code injection from view right on XWiki.ClassSheet in xwiki-platform

State
Published
Severity
9.9 Critical
Published
Apr 18, 2023
Updated
Feb 6, 2025
Reserved
Apr 7, 2023

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Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with view rights can execute arbitrary script macros including Groovy and Python macros that allow remote code execution including unrestricted read and write access to all wiki contents. The attack works by opening a non-existing page with a name crafted to contain a dangerous payload. This issue has been patched in XWiki 14.4.8, 14.10.3 and 15.0RC1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.9 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
xwiki-platformxwiki
  • < 14.4.8Affected
  • >= 14.5.0, < 14.10.3Affected

References

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