CVE-2023-29202

CRITICAL

XWiki Commons - XSS

Title source: llm

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The RSS macro that is bundled in XWiki included the content of the feed items without any cleaning in the HTML output when the parameter `content` was set to `true`. This allowed arbitrary HTML and in particular also JavaScript injection and thus cross-site scripting (XSS) by specifying an RSS feed with malicious content. With the interaction of a user with programming rights, this could be used to execute arbitrary actions in the wiki, including privilege escalation, remote code execution, information disclosure, modifying or deleting content and sabotaging the wiki. The issue has been patched in XWiki 14.6 RC1, the content of the feed is now properly cleaned before being displayed. As a workaround, if the RSS macro isn't used in the wiki, the macro can be uninstalled by deleting `WEB-INF/lib/xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-rss-XX.jar`, where `XX` is XWiki's version, in the web application's directory.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.0211
EPSS Percentile 83.9%
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 (6)

xwiki/xwiki < 14.5
xwiki/xwiki
xwiki/xwiki
xwiki/xwiki
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-core-rendering-macro-rss Maven
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-rss < 14.6-rc-1Maven

Timeline

Published Apr 15, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026