GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4 org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki Eval Injection vulnerability
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-29211
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94, CWE-95
- Reviewed
- 2023-04-12
Affected packages
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki: >= 5.3-milestone-2, < 13.10.11 → fixed in 13.10.11
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki: >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.7 → fixed in 14.4.7
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki: >= 14.5, < 14.10 → fixed in 14.10
Description
Impact
Any user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter.
A proof of concept exploit is to open /xwiki/bin/view/WikiManager/DeleteWiki?wikiId=%22+%2F%7D%7D+%7B%7Basync+async%3D%22true%22+cached%3D%22false%22+context%3D%22doc.reference%22%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello+from+groovy%21%22%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D where is the URL of your XWiki installation.
Patches
The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.
Workarounds
The issue can be fixed manually applying this patch.
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
• Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
• Email us at Security Mailing List
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-29211 XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29211 advisory
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64 web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform package
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20297 web