Access Control Bypass Affecting org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates package, versions [8.0-rc-1,14.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGXWIKIPLATFORM-5441643
  • published21 Apr 2023
  • disclosed20 Apr 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-29513  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates to version 14.10.1 or higher.

Overview

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates is a Web Resources for the XWiki platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass due to allowing users to be created even when registration is disabled without validation via template macro. If a guest has view rights on any document, it's possible to create a new user using the distribution/firstadminuser.wiki in the wrong context.

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