CVE-2023-29522 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2023-29522

Code injection from view right on XWiki.ClassSheet in xwiki-platform

Vulnerability Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with view rights can execute arbitrary script macros including Groovy and Python macros that allow remote code execution including unrestricted read and write access to all wiki contents. The attack works by opening a non-existing page with a name crafted to contain a dangerous payload. This issue has been patched in XWiki 14.4.8, 14.10.3 and 15.0RC1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

xwiki-platform
Vulnerable Versions:
< 14.4.8, >= 14.5.0, < 14.10.3

Timeline

Official Publish: April 18th, 2023
Last Modified: February 6th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-74

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection