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CVE-2023-46243: XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation and remote code execution via the edit action

November 7, 2023

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions it’s possible for a user to execute any content with the right of an existing document’s content author, provided the user have edit right on it. A crafted URL of the form /xwiki/bin/edit//?content=%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello+from+ Groovy%21%22%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D&xpage=view can be used to execute arbitrary groovy code on the server. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki versions 14.10.6 and 15.2RC1. Users are advised to update. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-g2qq-c5j9-5w5w
  • github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/a0e6ca083b36be6f183b9af33ae735c1e02010f4
  • github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-g2qq-c5j9-5w5w
  • jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20385
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46243

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.0 before 14.10.6, all versions starting from 15.0 before 15.2-rc-1

Fixed versions

  • 14.10.6
  • 15.2-rc-1

Solution

Upgrade to versions 14.10.6, 15.2-rc-1 or above. *Note*: 15.2-rc-1 may be an unstable version. Use caution.

Source file

maven/org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-oldcore/CVE-2023-46243.yml

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