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GHSA-j584-j2vj-3f93

GitHub Security Advisory

XWiki Platform allows remote code execution from user account

✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
When an admin disables a user account, the user's profile is executed with the admin's rights. This allows a user to place malicious code in the user profile before getting an admin to disable the user account.

To reproduce, as a user without script nor programming rights, edit the about section of your user profile and add `{{groovy}}services.logging.getLogger("attacker").error("Hello from Groovy!"){{/groovy}}`.
As an admin, go to the user profile and click the "Disable this account" button.
Then, reload the page. If the logs show `attacker - Hello from Groovy!` then the instance is vulnerable.

### Patches
This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.6 and 16.0.0.

### Workarounds
We're not aware of any workaround except upgrading.

### References
* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611
* https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f89c8f47fad6e5cc7e68c69a7e0acde07f5eed5a

Affected Packages

Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
Affected versions: 13.4.7 (fixed in 14.10.21)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
Affected versions: 13.10.3 (fixed in 14.10.21)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
Affected versions: 15.0-rc-1 (fixed in 15.5.5)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
Affected versions: 15.6-rc-1 (fixed in 15.10.6)
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
Affected versions: 16.0.0-rc-1 (fixed in 16.0.0)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-j584-j2vj-3f93
Published
June 20, 2024 4:19 PM
Last Modified
February 5, 2025 9:20 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 28, 2025 6:37 AM

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