CVE-2023-29201

CRITICAL

XWiki Commons - XSS

Title source: llm

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The "restricted" mode of the HTML cleaner in XWiki, introduced in version 4.2-milestone-1, only escaped `<script>` and `<style>`-tags but neither attributes that can be used to inject scripts nor other dangerous HTML tags like `<iframe>`. As a consequence, any code relying on this "restricted" mode for security is vulnerable to JavaScript injection ("cross-site scripting"/XSS). When a privileged user with programming rights visits such a comment in XWiki, the malicious JavaScript code is executed in the context of the user session. This allows server-side code execution with programming rights, impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the XWiki instance. This problem has been patched in XWiki 14.6 RC1 with the introduction of a filter with allowed HTML elements and attributes that is enabled in restricted mode. There are no known workarounds apart from upgrading to a version including the fix.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP
by shoucheng3 · poc
https://github.com/shoucheng3/xwiki__xwiki-commons_CVE-2023-29201_14-5

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.0233
EPSS Percentile 84.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-79
Status published

Affected Products (2)

xwiki/xwiki < 14.5
org.xwiki.commons/xwiki-commons-xml < 14.6-rc-1Maven

Timeline

Published Apr 15, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026