GHSA-2jhm-qp48-hv5jMediumCVSS 5.5

Missing authorization in xwiki-platform

Published
February 9, 2022
Last Modified
July 13, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Any user with SCRIPT right (EDIT right before XWiki 7.4) can read any file located in the XWiki WAR (for example xwiki.cfg and xwiki.properties) through XWiki#invokeServletAndReturnAsString:

$xwiki.invokeServletAndReturnAsString("/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg")

Patches

It has been patched in XWiki versions 12.10.9, 13.4.3 and 13.7-rc-1.

Workarounds

The only workaround is to give SCRIPT right only to trusted users.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18870

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🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:>= 13.6-rc-1, <= 13.6
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:>= 13.0.0, < 13.4.3
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:< 12.10.9

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