In XWiki Platform, payloads stored in content is executed when a user with script/programming right edit them (xwiki xwiki-platform)

CVE-2024-43401
CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.68 % · percentile 52 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A user without script/programming right can trick a user with elevated rights to edit a content with a malicious payload using a WYSIWYG editor. The user with elevated rights is not warned beforehand that they are going to edit possibly dangerous content. The payload is executed at edit time. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10RC1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

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 3.1HIGH 8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
xwiki · xwiki-platformaffected < 15.10-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