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GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9

GitHub Security Advisory

XWiki Platform: Remote code execution as guest via DatabaseSearch

✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
XWiki's database search allows remote code execution through the search text. This allows remote code execution for any visitor of a public wiki or user of a closed wiki as the database search is by default accessible for all users. This impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation.

To reproduce on an instance, without being logged in, go to `<hostname>/xwiki/bin/get/Main/DatabaseSearch?outputSyntax=plain&text=%7D%7D%7D%7B%7Basync%20async%3Dfalse%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello%20from%22%20%2B%20%22%20search%20text%3A%22%20%2B%20%2823%20%2B%2019%29%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D%20`. If the title of the RSS channel contains `Hello from search text:42`, the instance is vulnerable.

### Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.20, 15.5.4 and 15.10RC1.

### Workarounds
It is possible to manually apply [this patch](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/95bdd6cc6298acdf7f8f21298d40eeb8390a8565#diff-ef3314b8bb489e5368618ea1940c59098b18ec2246cc65fe337ae636de87e404) to the page `Main.DatabaseSearch`. Alternatively, unless database search is explicitly used by users, this page can be deleted as this is not the default search interface of XWiki.

### References
* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21472
* https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/95bdd6cc6298acdf7f8f21298d40eeb8390a8565

Affected Packages

Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-ui
Affected versions: 2.4-milestone-1 (fixed in 14.10.20)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-ui
Affected versions: 15.0-rc-1 (fixed in 15.5.4)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-ui
Affected versions: 15.6-rc-1 (fixed in 15.10-rc-1)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9
Published
April 10, 2024 5:12 PM
Last Modified
July 9, 2024 9:43 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-ui
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 28, 2025 6:37 AM

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