CVE-2023-29209

CRITICAL

XWiki - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents including the legacy notification activity macro 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 macro parameters of the legacy notification activity macro. This macro is installed by default in XWiki. The vulnerability can be exploited via every wiki page that is editable including the user's profile, but also with just view rights using the HTMLConverter that is part of the CKEditor integration which is bundled with XWiki. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7 and 14.10.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.9
EPSS 0.1893
EPSS Percentile 95.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-95 CWE-94
Status published
Products (2)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-legacy-notification-activitymacro 10.9 - 13.10.11Maven
xwiki/xwiki 10.9 - 13.10.11
Published Apr 15, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026