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Privilege escalation (PR) from account/view through AdminFieldsDisplaySheet and admin.vm

Critical
manuelleduc published GHSA-rfh6-mg6h-h668 Apr 12, 2023

Package

maven xwiki-platform-administration-ui (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 1.5M2

Patched versions

15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, 13.10.11

Description

Impact

Any user with edit rights on a page (e.g., it's own user page), 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 section ids in XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet. This page is installed by default.

Reproduction steps are described in https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20261

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Workarounds

The issue can be fixed by applying this patch on XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet.

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Severity

Critical
9.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

CVE ID

CVE-2023-29511

Weaknesses