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Critical · 10.0 CVE-2023-26055 EUVD-2023-0944GHSA-8cw6-4r32-6r3h

XWiki Commons may allow privilege escalation to programming rights via user's first name

Published Mar 2, 2023 · Updated Mar 5, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Starting in version 3.1-milestone-1, any user can edit their own profile and inject code, which is going to be executed with programming right. The same vulnerability can also be exploited in all other places where short text properties are displayed, e.g., in apps created using Apps Within Minutes that use a short text field. The problem has been patched on versions 13.10.9, 14.4.4, 14.7RC1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
xwiki xwiki-commons >= 3.1-milestone-1, < 13.10.9, >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.4, >= 14.5, < 14.7-rc-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml >= 3.1-milestone-1, < 13.10.9 13.10.9 GHSA-8cw6-4r32-6r3h
Maven org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.4 14.4.4 GHSA-8cw6-4r32-6r3h
Maven org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml >= 14.5, < 14.7-rc-1 14.7-rc-1 GHSA-8cw6-4r32-6r3h

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