Pro Macros Remote Code Execution via Viewpdf and similar macros (xwikisas xwiki-pro-macros)

CVE-2024-42489

CRITICAL 10.0

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.06 % · percentile 65 (2026-10-31)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-08-12 15:49 UTC
Updated: 2024-08-13 20:43 UTC
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Analyzed

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Description

Pro Macros provides XWiki rendering macros. Missing escaping in the Viewpdf macro allows any user with view right on the `CKEditor.HTMLConverter` page or edit or comment right on any page to perform remote code execution. Other macros like Viewppt are vulnerable to the same kind of attack. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.10.1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-74 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-39643
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-42489

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:pro_macros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.0 < 1.10.1

Affected products

Product	Versions
xwikisas · xwiki-pro-macros	affected >= 1.0, < 1.10.1

Sources

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

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