🛡️ CVE-2023-35151 — xwiki

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-359 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

XWiki Platform may show email addresses in clear in REST results

Impact

Any user can call a REST endpoint and obtain the obfuscated passwords (even when the mail obfuscation is activated).

For instance, by calling http://localhost:8080/xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/XWiki/pages/U1/objects/XWiki.XWikiUsers/0 when user U1 exists on wiki xwiki.

Patches

The issue has been patched on XWiki 14.4.8, 14.10.6, and 15.1

Workarounds

There is no known workaround. It is advised to upgrade to one of the patched versions.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16138
  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/824cd742ecf5439971247da11bfe7e0ad2b10ede

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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 no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-35151 is classified as CWE-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor. The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the…

Affected software

CVE-2023-35151 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server (from 15.0-rc-1 up to 15.1)
  • 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 HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-359
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-rest-server 15.0-rc-1 15.1
xwiki — —

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