CVE-2023-35162
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v2025.03.14There is a 3.4% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS). It's possible to exploit the previewactions template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > <hostname>/xwiki/bin/get/FlamingoThemes/Cerulean xpage=xpart&vm=previewactions.vm&xcontinue=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 6.1-rc-1. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.
Available Exploits
XWiki < 14.10.5 - Cross-Site Scripting
XWiki Platform is vulnerable to reflected XSS via the previewactions template. An attacker can inject JavaScript through the xcontinue parameter.
References:
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20342
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/244dbbaa0738a0c40b19929c0369c8b62ae5236e/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-flamingo/xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin/xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin-resources/src/main/resources/flamingo/previewactions.vm#L48
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-35162
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XWiki Platform vulnerable to cross-site scripting via xcontinue parameter in previewactions template
GHSA-q9hg-9qj2-mxf9Advisory Details
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: June 20, 2023, Modified: June 30, 2023