Medium severity · published Apr 19, 2023
CVE-2023-29520
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object. This will lead to a broken page. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no workarounds other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XW
Xwiki · Xwiki
before 13.10.11; 14.0 before 14.4.8; 14.5 before 14.10.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29520
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29520
Exploit
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-9jq5-xwqw-q8j3
Exploit
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20460
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