Critical severity · published Apr 15, 2023
CVE-2023-29207
XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects
9.0
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The Livetable Macro wasn't properly sanitizing column names, thus allowing the insertion of raw HTML code including JavaScript. This vulnerability was also exploitable via the Documents Macro that is included since XWiki 3.5M1 and doesn't require script rights, this can be demonstrated with the syntax `{{documents id="example" count="5" actions="false" columns="doc.title, before<script>alert(1)</script>after"/}}`. Therefore, this can also be exploited by users without script right and in comments. With the interaction of a user with more rights, this could be used to execute arbitrary actions in the wiki, including privilege escalation, remote code execution, information disclosure, modifying or deleting content. This has been patched in XWiki 14.9, 14.4.6, and 13.10.10.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XW
Xwiki · Xwiki
1.9 before 13.10.10; 14.0 before 14.4.6; 14.5 before 14.9; 1.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29207
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29207
Patch
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/65ca06c51e7a1d5a579344c7272b2cc9a9a21126
Exploit
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-6vgh-9r3c-2cxp
Exploit
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15205
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