High severity · published Apr 19, 2023
CVE-2023-29510
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it
8.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In XWiki, every user can add translations that are only applied to the current user. This also allows overriding existing translations. Such translations are often included in privileged contexts without any escaping which allows remote code execution for any user who has edit access on at least one document which could be the user's own profile where edit access is enabled by default. A mitigation for this vulnerability is part of XWiki 14.10.2 and XWiki 15.0 RC1: translations with user scope now require script right. This means that regular users cannot exploit this anymore as users don't have script right by default anymore starting with XWiki 14.10. There are no known workarounds apart from upgrading to a patched versions.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XW
Xwiki · Xwiki
before 14.10.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29510
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29510
Patch
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/d06ff8a58480abc7f63eb1d4b8b366024d990643
Exploit
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-4v38-964c-xjmw
Exploit
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19749
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