🛡️ CVE-2023-35150 — xwiki

🔴 CVSS 9.9 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 NVD
9.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation (PR) from view right via Invitation application

Impact

Any user with view rights on any document can execute code with programming rights, leading to remote code execution by crafting an url with a dangerous payload. See the example below:

Open <xwiki-host>/xwiki/bin/view/%5D%5D%20%7B%7Basync%20async%3D%22true%22%20cached%3D%22false%22%20context%3D%22doc.reference%22%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln(%22Hello%20%22%20%2B%20%22from%20groovy!%22)%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D?sheet=Invitation.InvitationGuestActions&xpage=view where <xwiki-host> is the URL of your XWiki installation.

Patches

The problem as been patching on XWiki 15.0, 14.10.4 and 14.4.8.

Workarounds

It is possible to partially fix the issue by applying this [patch](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/b65220a4d86b8888791c3b643074ebca5c089a3a). Note that some additional issue can remain and can be fixed automatically by a migration. Hence, it is advised to upgrade to one of the patched version instead of patching manually.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20285

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How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-35150 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2023-35150 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-invitation-ui (from 15.0-rc-1 up to 15.0)
  • xwiki

Timeline and source

Published on 20 June 2023 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)

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-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-06-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-invitation-ui 15.0-rc-1 15.0
xwiki — —

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