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GHSA-79rg-7mv3-jrr5

GitHub Security Advisory

Rating Script Service expose XWiki to SQL injection

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
This issue impacts only XWiki with the Ratings API installed.
The Rating Script Service expose an API to perform SQL requests without escaping the from and where search arguments.
This might lead to an SQL script injection quite easily for any user having Script rights on XWiki.

### Patches
The problem has been patched in XWiki 12.9RC1.

### Workarounds
The only workaround besides upgrading XWiki would be to uninstall the Ratings API in XWiki from the Extension Manager.

### References
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-17662

### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Open an issue in [Jira XWiki](http://jira.xwiki.org)
* Email us at our [security mailing list](mailto:[email protected])

Affected Packages

Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-ratings-api
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 12.9)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-79rg-7mv3-jrr5
Published
March 23, 2021 10:48 PM
Last Modified
March 23, 2021 10:34 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-ratings-api
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 23, 2025 6:31 AM

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