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CVE-2023-29208: Data leak through deleted documents

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-668

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Rights added to a document are not taken into account for viewing it once it's deleted. Note that this vulnerability only impact deleted documents that where containing view rights: the view rights provided on a space of a deleted document are properly checked. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10 by checking the rights of current user: only admin and deleter of the document are allowed to view it.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 1.1 before 13.10.11; from 14.4.0 before 14.4.7; from 14.5 before 14.10 — fixed in 13.10.11, 14.10, 14.4.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 13.10.11, 14.10, 14.4.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/d9e947559077e947315bf700c5703dfc7dd8a8d7
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-4f8g-fq6x-jqrr
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16285
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/d9e947559077e947315bf700c5703dfc7dd8a8d7
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-4f8g-fq6x-jqrr
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16285

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