CVE-2021-21379

HIGH

XWiki Platform 11.4-11.10.10 - Improper Preservation of Permissions in wikimacrocontent

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions of XWiki Platform, the `{{wikimacrocontent}}` executes the content with the rights of the wiki macro author instead of the caller of that wiki macro. This makes possible to inject scripts through it and they will be executed with the rights of the wiki macro (very often a user which has Programming rights). Fortunately, no such macro exists by default in XWiki Standard but one could have been created or installed with an extension. This vulnerability has been patched in versions XWiki 12.6.3, 11.10.11 and 12.8-rc-1. There is no easy workaround other than disabling the affected macros. Inserting content in a safe way or knowing what is the user who called the wiki macro is not easy.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-17759

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0046
EPSS Percentile 36.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-281
Status published
Products (2)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-rendering-wikimacro-store 11.4 - 11.10.11Maven
xwiki/xwiki 11.4 - 11.10.11
Published Mar 12, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026