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GHSA-4f8m-7h83-9f6m

GitHub Security Advisory

XWiki Platform vulnerable to CSRF privilege escalation/RCE via the create action

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
The create action is vulnerable to a CSRF attack, allowing script and thus remote code execution when targeting a user with script/programming right, thus compromising the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. To reproduce, the XWiki syntax `[[image:path:/xwiki/bin/create/Foo/WebHome?template=&parent=Main.WebHome&title=$services.logging.getLogger(%22foo%22).error(%22Script%20executed!%22)]]` can be added to any place that supports XWiki syntax like a comment. When a user with script right views this image and a log message `ERROR foo - Script executed!` appears in the log, the XWiki installation is vulnerable.

### Patches
This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and 15.4RC1 by requiring a CSRF token for the actual page creation.

### Workarounds
There are no known workarounds.

### References
* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20849
* https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/4b20528808d0c311290b0d9ab2cfc44063380ef7

Affected Packages

Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
Affected versions: 3.2-milestone-3 (fixed in 14.10.9)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
Affected versions: 15.0-rc-1 (fixed in 15.4-rc-1)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-4f8m-7h83-9f6m
Published
August 23, 2023 8:37 PM
Last Modified
September 1, 2023 7:44 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 29, 2025 6:37 AM

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