CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-37899
8.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. When an admin disables a user account, the user's profile is executed with the admin's rights. This allows a user to place malicious code in the user profile before getting an admin to disable the user account. To reproduce, as a user without script nor programming rights, edit the about section of your user profile and add `{{groovy}}services.logging.getLogger("attacker").error("Hello from Groovy!"){{/groovy}}`.
As an admin, go to the user profile and click the "Disable this account" button. Then, reload the page. If the logs show `attacker - Hello from Groovy!` then the instance is vulnerable. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.6 and 16.0.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
### Workarounds
We're not aware of any workaround except upgrading.
### References
* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611
* https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f89c8f47fad6e5cc7e68c69a7e0acde07f5eed5a
Affected configurations
• xwiki xwiki (>= 13.10.3 < 14.10.21)
• xwiki xwiki (>= 15.0 < 15.5.5)
• xwiki xwiki (>= 15.6 < 15.10.6)
• xwiki xwiki 13.4.7
• xwiki xwiki 13.5
• xwiki xwiki 16.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f89c8f47fad6e5cc7e68c69a7e0acde07f5eed5a Patch
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-j584-j2vj-3f93 Vendor Advisory
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f89c8f47fad6e5cc7e68c69a7e0acde07f5eed5a Patch
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-j584-j2vj-3f93 Vendor Advisory
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611 Exploit, Vendor Advisory