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CVE-2023-29211: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki Eval Injection vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-95

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter. The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: before 13.10.11; from 14.4.0 before 14.4.7; 14.10-rc1 — fixed in 13.10.11, 14.4.7

How to fix

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

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20297
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20297

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