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Critical · 9.1 Public exploit CVE-2023-29201 EUVD-2023-1348GHSA-m3jr-cvhj-f35j

org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Published Apr 15, 2023 · Updated Feb 6, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The "restricted" mode of the HTML cleaner in XWiki, introduced in version 4.2-milestone-1, only escaped `<script>` and `<style>`-tags but neither attributes that can be used to inject scripts nor other dangerous HTML tags like `<iframe>`. As a consequence, any code relying on this "restricted" mode for security is vulnerable to JavaScript injection ("cross-site scripting"/XSS). When a privileged user with programming rights visits such a comment in XWiki, the malicious JavaScript code is executed in the context of the user session. This allows server-side code execution with programming rights, impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the XWiki instance. This problem has been patched in XWiki 14.6 RC1 with the introduction of a filter with allowed HTML elements and attributes that is enabled in restricted mode. There are no known workarounds apart from upgrading to a version including the fix.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
xwiki xwiki-commons >= 4.2-milestone-1, < 14.6-rc-1 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml >= 4.2-milestone-1, < 14.6-rc-1 14.6-rc-1 GHSA-m3jr-cvhj-f35j

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