🛡️ CVE-2023-29516
🔴 CVSS 9.9 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 NVD
9.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with view rights on `XWiki.AttachmentSelector` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping in the "Cancel and return to page" button. This page is installed by default. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-20
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-attachment-ui 14.5 14.10.1
xwiki 14.5 14.10.1

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