CVE-2023-29211

CRITICAL

XWiki < 13.10.11 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Improper WikiId Parameter Escaping

Title source: llm

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. 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. The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4

Patch x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Exploit, Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20297

Scores

CVSS v3 9.9

EPSS 0.0119

EPSS Percentile 63.9%

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 (3)

org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki 5.3-milestone-2 - 13.10.11Maven

xwiki/xwiki 14.10 rc1

xwiki/xwiki < 13.10.11

Published Apr 16, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026