Medium severity · published Oct 25, 2023
CVE-2023-45137
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it
5.4
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web` starting in version 3.1-milestone-2 and prior to version 13.4-rc-1, as well as `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates` prior to versions 14.10.12 and 15.5-rc-1, are vulnerable to cross-site scripting. When trying to create a document that already exists, XWiki displays an error message in the form for creating it. Due to missing escaping, this error message is vulnerable to raw HTML injection and thus XSS. The injected code is the document reference of the existing document so this requires that the attacker first creates a non-empty document whose name contains the attack code. This has been patched in `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web` version 13.4-rc-1 and `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates` versions 14.10.12 and 15.5-rc-1 by adding the appropriate escaping. The vulnerable template file `createinline.vm` is part of XWiki's WAR and can be patched by manually applying the changes from the fix.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 55% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XW
Xwiki · Xwiki
3.1.1 before 13.4; 14.0 before 14.10.12; 15.0 before 15.5; 3.1; 3.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45137
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-45137
Patch
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ed8ec747967f8a16434806e727a57214a8843581
Exploit
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-93gh-jgjj-r929
Exploit
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20961
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