GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-4f8m-7h83-9f6m XWiki Platform vulnerable to CSRF privilege escalation/RCE via the create action
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-40572
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
- Reviewed
- 2023-08-23
Affected packages
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore: >= 3.2-milestone-3, < 14.10.9 → fixed in 14.10.9
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore: >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.4-rc-1 → fixed in 15.4-rc-1
Description
Impact
The create action is vulnerable to a CSRF attack, allowing script and thus remote code execution when targeting a user with script/programming right, thus compromising the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. To reproduce, the XWiki syntax `[[image:path:/xwiki/bin/create/Foo/WebHome?template=&parent=Main.WebHome&title=$services.logging.getLogger(%22foo%22).error(%22Script%20executed!%22)]]` can be added to any place that supports XWiki syntax like a comment. When a user with script right views this image and a log message `ERROR foo - Script executed!` appears in the log, the XWiki installation is vulnerable.
Patches
This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and 15.4RC1 by requiring a CSRF token for the actual page creation.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds.
References
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20849
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/4b20528808d0c311290b0d9ab2cfc44063380ef7
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-40572 XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-4f8m-7h83-9f6m web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40572 advisory
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/123e5d7e4ca06bf75b95aaef665aafc4fa9cae64 web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/4b20528808d0c311290b0d9ab2cfc44063380ef7 web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform package
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20849 web