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GHSA-6xxr-648m-gch6

GitHub Security Advisory

XWiki Platform vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) via the REST API

✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact

The REST API allows executing all actions via POST requests and accepts `text/plain`, `multipart/form-data` or `application/www-form-urlencoded` as content types which can be sent via regular HTML forms, thus allowing cross-site request forgery. With the interaction of a user with programming rights, this allows remote code execution through script macros and thus impacts the integrity, availability and confidentiality of the whole XWiki installation.

For regular cookie-based authentication, the vulnerability is mitigated by SameSite cookie restrictions but as of March 2023, these are not enabled by default in Firefox and Safari.

### Patches
The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.8 and 15.2 by requiring a CSRF token header for certain request types that are susceptible to CSRF attacks.

### Workarounds

It is possible to check for the `Origin` header in a reverse proxy to protect the REST endpoint from CSRF attacks, see [the Jira issue](https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20135) for an example configuration.

### References

* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20135
* https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/4c175405faa0e62437df397811c7526dfc0fbae7

Affected Packages

Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server
Affected versions: 1.8 (fixed in 14.10.8)
Maven com.xpn.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rest-server
Affected versions: 1.8 (fixed in 14.10.8)
Maven com.xpn.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rest
Affected versions: 1.8 (fixed in 14.10.8)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server
Affected versions: 15.0-rc-1 (fixed in 15.2)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-6xxr-648m-gch6
Published
July 10, 2023 9:53 PM
Last Modified
July 10, 2023 9:53 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 29, 2025 6:37 AM

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