XWiki Platform XSS vulnerability from account in the create page form via template provider (xwiki xwiki-platform)

CVE-2023-45134
CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 2.02 % · percentile 81 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Modified

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-1 and prior to 13.4-rc-1, `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates` prior to versions 14.10.2 and 15.5-rc-1, and `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-web-standard` starting in version 2.4-milestone-2 and prior to version 3.1-milestone-1 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting. An attacker can create a template provider on any document that is part of the wiki (could be the attacker's user profile) that contains malicious code. This code is executed when this template provider is selected during document creation which can be triggered by sending the user to a URL. For the attacker, the only requirement is to have an account as by default the own user profile is editable. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary actions with the rights of the user opening the malicious link. Depending on the rights of the user, this may allow remote code execution and full read and write access to the whole XWiki installation. This has been patched in `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web` 13.4-rc-1, `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates` 14.10.2 and 15.5-rc-1, and `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-web-standard` 3.1-milestone-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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
xwiki · xwiki-platformaffected >= 3.1-milestone-1, < 13.4-rc-1 ; affected >= 2.4-milestone-2, < 3.1-milestone-1 ; affected >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.10.12 ; affected >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5-rc-1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD