CVE-2020-11057 — In XWiki Platform 7

In XWiki Platform 7.2 through 11.10.2, registered users without scripting/programming permissions are able to execute python/groovy scripts while editing personal dashboards. This has been fixed 11.3.7 , 11.10.3 and 12.0.

01What is this vulnerability?

In XWiki Platform 7.2 through 11.10.2, registered users without scripting/programming permissions are able to execute python/groovy scripts while editing personal dashboards. This has been fixed 11.3.7 , 11.10.3 and 12.0.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
xwiki	XWiki Platform	>= 7.2, < 11.10.3

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-05-12T20:55:13.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:21:14.645Z

09References

• medium.com — https://medium.com/%40andrew.levkin/tews-4c47cfc011d1
• github.com — https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rmp6-jjg8-9424
• jira.xwiki.org — https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16960