CVE-2021-21379

Summary

CVECVE-2021-21379
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-12 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-22 16:26:00 UTC
DescriptionXWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions of XWiki Platform, the `{{wikimacrocontent}}` executes the content with the rights of the wiki macro author instead of the caller of that wiki macro. This makes possible to inject scripts through it and they will be executed with the rights of the wiki macro (very often a user which has Programming rights). Fortunately, no such macro exists by default in XWiki Standard but one could have been created or installed with an extension. This vulnerability has been patched in versions XWiki 12.6.3, 11.10.11 and 12.8-rc-1. There is no easy workaround other than disabling the affected macros. Inserting content in a safe way or knowing what is the user who called the wiki macro is not easy.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-281

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xwiki Xwiki All All All All
Application Xwiki Xwiki All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
It's possible to execute anything with the rights of the author of a macro which uses the {{wikimacrocontent}} macro · Advisory · xwiki/xwiki-platform · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
[XWIKI-17759] {{wikimacrocontent}} macro executes the content with the wrong author - XWiki.org JIRA MISC jira.xwiki.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983847 Java (maven) Security Update for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-wikimacro-store (GHSA-v662-xpcc-9xf6)

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