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CVE-2023-26471 — XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 11.6-rc-1, comments are supposed to be executed with the right of superadmin but in restricted mode (anything dangerous is disabled), but the async macro does not take into account the restricted mode. This means that

CVSS
10.0 CRITICAL
EPSS
6.26% (top 9.20%)
CWE
CWE-284
Published
2023-03-02T18:28:52.037Z
Last modified
2025-03-05T19:54:04.360Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 11.6-rc-1, comments are supposed to be executed with the right of superadmin but in restricted mode (anything dangerous is disabled), but the async macro does not take into account the restricted mode. This means that any user with comment right can use the async macro to make it execute any wiki content with the right of superadmin…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
xwikixwikiplatform — >= 11.6-rc-1, < 13.10.10, >= 14.0, < 14.4.6, >= 14.5, < 14.9

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

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

09References

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