CVE-2023-35162

XPlatform Wiki vulnerable to cross-site scripting via xcontinue parameter in preview actions template

State: Published
Severity: 9.7 Critical
Published: Jun 23, 2023
Updated: Nov 29, 2024
Reserved: Jun 14, 2023

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS). It's possible to exploit the previewactions template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > <hostname>/xwiki/bin/get/FlamingoThemes/Cerulean xpage=xpart&vm=previewactions.vm&xcontinue=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 6.1-rc-1. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.7 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
xwiki-platformxwiki	>= 6.1-rc-1, < 14.10.5Affected >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.1-rc-1Affected

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