CVE-2023-35160

CRITICAL NUCLEI

XWiki 3.0-14.10.4 - Cross-Site Scripting via Resubmit Template URL Parameter

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2023-35160 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS). It's possible to exploit the resubmit template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/Main xpage=resubmit&resubmit=javascript:alert(document.domain)&xback=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 2.5-milestone-2. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.

Nuclei Templates (1)

XWiki >= 2.5-milestone-2 - Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMVERIFIEDby ritikchaddha
Shodan: html:"data-xwiki-reference"
FOFA: body="data-xwiki-reference"

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20343
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20583

Scores

CVSS v3 9.6
EPSS 0.0204
EPSS Percentile 78.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-79 CWE-87
Status published
Products (4)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-web-templates 2.5-milestone-2 - 14.10.5Maven
xwiki/xwiki 2.5 milestone2
xwiki/xwiki 15.0
xwiki/xwiki 3.0 - 14.10.5
Published Jun 23, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026