CVE-2023-40176

CRITICAL

Xwiki < 14.10.5 - XSS

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any registered user can exploit a stored XSS through their user profile by setting the payload as the value of the time zone user preference. Even though the time zone is selected from a drop down (no free text value) it can still be set from JavaScript (using the browser developer tools) or by calling the save URL on the user profile with the right query string. Once the time zone is set it is displayed without escaping which means the payload gets executed for any user that visits the malicious user profile, allowing the attacker to steal information and even gain more access rights (escalation to programming rights). This issue is present since version 4.1M2 when the time zone user preference was introduced. The issue has been fixed in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1RC1.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.3259
EPSS Percentile 96.9%
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 (4)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-web-templates 4.1-milestone-2 - 14.10.5Maven
xwiki/xwiki 4.1 milestone2
xwiki/xwiki 15.0 (2 CPE variants)
xwiki/xwiki 4.1.1 - 14.10.5
Published Aug 23, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026