CVE-2023-40177

Summary

CVECVE-2023-40177
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-23 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-29 15:23:00 UTC
DescriptionXWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any registered user can use the content field of their user profile page to execute arbitrary scripts with programming rights, thus effectively performing rights escalation. This issue is present since version 4.3M2 when AppWithinMinutes Application added support for the Content field, allowing any wiki page (including the user profile page) to use its content as an AWM Content field, which has a custom displayer that executes the content with the rights of the ``AppWithinMinutes.Content`` author, rather than the rights of the content author. The vulnerability has been fixed in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1RC1. The fix is in the content of the AppWithinMinutes.Content page that defines the custom displayer. By using the ``display`` script service to render the content we make sure that the proper author is used for access rights checks.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-94

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xwiki Xwiki All All All All
Application Xwiki Xwiki 15.0 - All All
Application Xwiki Xwiki 15.0 rc1 All All
Application Xwiki Xwiki 4.3 milestone2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Privilege escalation (PR) from account through AWM content fields · Advisory · xwiki/xwiki-platform · GitHub MISC github.com
XWIKI-19906: Render the AppWithinMinutes Content field as its author · xwiki/xwiki-platform@dfb1cde · GitHub MISC github.com
Loading... 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

  • 994957 Java (Maven) Security Update for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui (GHSA-5mf8-v43w-mfxp)

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