CVE-2024-21650

CRITICAL EXPLOITED NUCLEI

XWiki < 4.10.20 - Remote code execution

Title source: nuclei
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2024-21650 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV). A Nuclei detection template is also available.

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. XWiki is vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack through its user registration feature. This issue allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious payloads in the "first name" or "last name" fields during user registration. This impacts all installations that have user registration enabled for guests. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.17, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.

Nuclei Templates (1)

XWiki < 4.10.20 - Remote code execution
CRITICALVERIFIEDby ritikchaddha
Shodan: html:"data-xwiki-reference"
FOFA: body="data-xwiki-reference"

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 10.0
EPSS 0.9348
EPSS Percentile 99.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2025-09-25
CWE
CWE-95 CWE-94
Status published
Products (2)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-administration-ui 2.2 - 14.10.17Maven
xwiki/xwiki < 14.10.17
Published Jan 08, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026