CVE-2023-37912

CRITICAL

XWiki Rendering < 14.10.6 - Privilege Escalation via Footnote Macro Context Switching

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

XWiki Rendering is a generic Rendering system that converts textual input in a given syntax into another syntax. Prior to version 14.10.6 of `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes` and `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes` and prior to version 15.1-rc-1 of `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes`, the footnote macro executed its content in a potentially different context than the one in which it was defined. In particular in combination with the include macro, this allows privilege escalation from a simple user account in XWiki to programming rights and thus remote code execution, impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6 and 15.1-rc-1. There is no workaround apart from upgrading to a fixed version of the footnote macro.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 9.9
EPSS 0.0125
EPSS Percentile 65.4%
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-270
Status published
Products (4)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes 0 - 14.10.6Maven
org.xwiki.rendering/xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes 0 - 14.10.6Maven
xwiki/xwiki-rendering 15.0 rc1
xwiki/xwiki-rendering < 14.10.6
Published Oct 25, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026