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CVE-2023-29209 — XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki pr

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents including the legacy notification activity macro can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full acces

CVSS
10.0 CRITICAL
EPSS
2.13% (top 16.00%)
CWE
CWE-95
Published
2023-04-15T16:06:44.752Z
Last modified
2025-02-06T17:06:24.027Z
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 Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents including the legacy notification activity macro can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the macro parameters of the legacy notification…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
xwikixwikiplatform — >= 10.9, < 13.10.11, >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.7, >= 14.5, < 14.10

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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