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High · 8.4 CVE-2023-29521 EUVD-2023-1363GHSA-p67q-h88v-5jgr

Code injection from account/view through VFS Tree macro in xwiki-platform

Published Apr 18, 2023 · Updated Feb 6, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with view rights can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of `Macro.VFSTreeMacro`. This page is not installed by default.This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.2, 14.4.8, 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
xwiki xwiki-platform < 13.10.11, >= 14.0.0, < 14.4.8, >= 14.5.0, < 14.10.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-vfs-ui >= 7.4-milestone-2, < 13.10.11 13.10.11 GHSA-p67q-h88v-5jgr
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-vfs-ui >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.8 14.4.8 GHSA-p67q-h88v-5jgr
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-vfs-ui >= 14.5, < 14.10.2 14.10.2 GHSA-p67q-h88v-5jgr

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