XWiki Platform RCE from account through SearchAdmin (xwiki xwiki-platform)

CVE-2023-50721
CRITICAL 10.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 78.81 % · percentile 100 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Modified

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in 4.5-rc-1 and prior to versions 14.10.15, 15.5.2, and 15.7-rc-1, the search administration interface doesn't properly escape the id and label of search user interface extensions, allowing the injection of XWiki syntax containing script macros including Groovy macros that allow remote code execution, impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki instance. This attack can be executed by any user who can edit some wiki page like the user's profile (editable by default) as user interface extensions that will be displayed in the search administration can be added on any document by any user. The necessary escaping has been added in XWiki 14.10.15, 15.5.2 and 15.7RC1. As a workaround, the patch can be applied manually applied to the page `XWiki.SearchAdmin`.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-95 — Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code
  • CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
xwiki · xwiki-platformaffected >= 4.5-rc-1, < 14.10.15 ; affected >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.2 ; affected >= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.7-rc-1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD