CVE-2023-29211
highpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.012 · 68 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter. The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 8.1–10
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affected products (9)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki14.0-rc-1 → 14.4.7osvUSpkg:maven/org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki
- Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki14.5 → 14.10osvUSpkg:maven/org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki
- Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki5.3-milestone-2 → 13.10.11osvUSpkg:maven/org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki
advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki Eval Injection vulnerability2023-04-12ghsa · osvUS
### Impact Any user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter. A proof of concept exploit is to open <xwiki-host>/xwiki/bin/view/WikiManager/DeleteWiki?wikiId=%22+%2F%7D%7D+%7B%7Basync+async%3D%22true%22+cached%3D%22false%22+context%3D%22doc.reference%22%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello+from+groovy%21%22%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D where <xwiki-host> is the URL of your XWiki installation. ### Patches The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10. ### Workarounds The issue can be fixed manually applying this [patch](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64). If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [Jira XWiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/) * Email us at [Security Mailing List](mailto:security@xwiki.org)
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references (10)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-29211/cnnvd
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64cnnvd
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4cnnvd
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20297cnnvd
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4enisa_euvd
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20297enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64Patchnvd
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