🛡️ CVE-2024-43401 — xwiki

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 NVD
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In XWiki Platform, payloads stored in content is executed when a user with script/programming right edit them

Impact

A user without script/programming right can trick a user with elevated rights to edit a content with a malicious payload using a WYSIWYG editor.

The user with elevated rights is not warned beforehand that they are going to edit possibly dangerous content.

The payload is executed at edit time.

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10RC1.

Workarounds

No workaround. It is advised to upgrade to XWiki 15.10+.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20331
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21311
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21481
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21482
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21483
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21484
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21485
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21486
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21487
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21488
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21489
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21490

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported on Intigriti by @floerer

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. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-43401 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2024-43401 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates (fixed in 15.10-rc-1)
  • xwiki (fixed in 15.9)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 August 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-19
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-08-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates 15.10-rc-1
xwiki 15.9

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