GHSA-jjm5-5v9v-7hx2MediumCVSS 5.4

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-authentication-default XSS with authenticate endpoints

Published
April 12, 2023
Last Modified
April 26, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

It was possible to inject some code using the URL of authenticate endpoints, e.g.:

https://hostname/xwiki/authenticate/wiki/xwiki%22onload=%22alert(origin)%22/resetpassword

This vulnerability was present in recent versions of XWiki:

  • 13.10.8+
  • 14.4.3+
  • 14.6+

Patches

This problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7 and 14.10.

Workarounds

There is no easy workaround except to upgrade.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20335
  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1943ea26c967ef868fb5f67c487d98d97cba0380

For more information

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🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-authentication-default:>= 13.10.8, < 13.10.11
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-authentication-default:>= 14.4.3, < 14.4.7
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-authentication-default:>= 14.6, < 14.10

🔗 References (5)