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xwiki contains Exposed Dangerous Method or Function

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 1, 2023 in xwiki/xwiki-platform

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-store-filesystem-oldcore (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 14.3-rc-1, < 14.4.6
>= 14.5, < 14.9-rc-1

Patched versions

14.4.6
14.9-rc-1

Description

Impact

org.xwiki.store.script.TemporaryAttachmentsScriptService#uploadTemporaryAttachment is returning an instance of com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiAttachment. This class is not supported to be exposed to users without the programing right.
com.xpn.xwiki.api.Attachment should be used instead and takes case of checking the user's rights before performing dangerous operations.

Patches

This has been patched in the version 14.9-rc-1 and 14.4.6.

Workarounds

There's no workaround for this issue.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20180

For more information

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References

@manuelleduc manuelleduc published to xwiki/xwiki-platform Mar 1, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 2, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 3, 2023
Reviewed Mar 3, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.6
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-26478

GHSA ID

GHSA-8692-g6g9-gm5p

Source code

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