CVE-2023-29528

CRITICAL

XWiki Commons 4.2-milestone-1-14.9 - Cross-Site Scripting via Invalid HTML Comments

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2023-29528. PoCs published by shoucheng3.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains source code and documentation for XWiki Commons, specifically the blame module, but does not include an exploit PoC for CVE-2023-29528. The files are part of the legitimate XWiki Commons project and do not demonstrate offensive techniques.

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 and massively improved in version 14.6-rc-1, allowed the injection of arbitrary HTML code and thus cross-site scripting via invalid HTML comments. 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 14.10, HTML comments are now removed in restricted mode and a check has been introduced that ensures that comments don't start with `>`. 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-2023-29528_14-9-rc-1

This repository contains source code and documentation for XWiki Commons, specifically the blame module, but does not include an exploit PoC for CVE-2023-29528. The files are part of the legitimate XWiki Commons project and do not demonstrate offensive techniques.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Other
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: XWiki Commons (version not specified in provided files)
No auth needed
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.0316
EPSS Percentile 87.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
org.xwiki.commons/xwiki-commons-xml 4.2-milestone-1 - 14.10Maven
xwiki/commons 4.2 (5 CPE variants)
xwiki/commons 4.3 - 14.10
Published Apr 20, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026