CVE-2023-29520 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2023-29520

Page render failure due to broken translations in xwiki-platform

4.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object. This will lead to a broken page. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no workarounds other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

xwiki

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Affected Software

xwiki-platform

Vulnerable Versions:

< 13.10.11, >= 14.0.0, < 14.4.8, >= 14.5.0, < 14.10.1

Timeline

Official Publish: April 18th, 2023

Last Modified: February 5th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood