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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.09% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGXWIKIPLATFORM-5441643
  • published 21 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 20 Apr 2023
  • credit Unknown

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

4.3 medium