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GHSA-93gh-jgjj-r929

GitHub Security Advisory

XWiki Platform vulnerable to XSS with edit right in the create document form for existing pages

✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
When trying to create a document that already exists, XWiki displays an error message in the form for creating it. Due to missing escaping, this error message is vulnerable to raw HTML injection and thus XSS. The injected code is the document reference of the existing document so this requires that the attacker first creates a non-empty document whose name contains the attack code.

To reproduce, the following steps can be used:

1. Go to `<xwiki-host>/xwiki/bin/create/Main/WebHome?parent=&templateprovider=&spaceReference=&name=%3Cimg%20onerror=%22alert(1)%22%20src=%22test%22` where `<xwiki-host>` is the URL of your XWiki installation.
2. Create the page and add some content.
3. Go again to `<xwiki-host>/xwiki/bin/create/Main/WebHome?parent=&templateprovider=&spaceReference=&name=%3Cimg%20onerror=%22alert(1)%22%20src=%22test%22` where `<xwiki-host>` is the URL of your XWiki installation.

If an alert with content "1" is displayed, the installation is vulnerable. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary actions with the rights of the user opening the malicious link. Depending on the rights of the user, this may allow remote code execution and full read and write access to the whole XWiki installation.

### Patches
This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.12 and 15.5RC1 by adding the appropriate escaping.

### Workarounds
The vulnerable template file createinline.vm is part of XWiki's WAR and can be patched by manually applying the [changes from the fix](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ed8ec747967f8a16434806e727a57214a8843581#diff-c222148bddebe4ff7629350f4053b618504a4ab172e697938c8fddf7c1fc6bc8).

Affected Packages

Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 14.10.12)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates
Affected versions: 15.0-rc-1 (fixed in 15.5-rc-1)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web
Affected versions: 3.1-milestone-2 (fixed in 13.4-rc-1)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-93gh-jgjj-r929
Published
October 25, 2023 9:14 PM
Last Modified
October 27, 2023 9:01 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 20, 2025 6:29 AM

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