CVE-2025-53837: org.xwiki.rendering:xwiki-rendering-xml has an Eval Injection issue
Any user who can edit their own user profile or any other document can execute arbitrary script macros including Groovy and Python macros that allow remote code execution including unrestricted read and write access to all wiki contents. The reason is that rendering output is included as content of HTML macros without further escaping and it is thus possible to close the HTML macro and inject script macros that are executed with programming rights.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-26vp-8gxg-v4pg
- github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/commit/92bc8095ed3acce15ab200c8525e1623b4898be5
- github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/releases/tag/xwiki-rendering-14.10.2
- github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/releases/tag/xwiki-rendering-15.0-rc-1
- github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/security/advisories/GHSA-26vp-8gxg-v4pg
- jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-693
- jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20313
- jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20327
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53837
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