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CVE-2023-29507: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore makes Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs with DocumentAuthors

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: none known
• Published: 2023-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-648

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The Document script API returns directly a DocumentAuthors allowing to set any authors to the document, which in consequence can allow subsequent executions of scripts since this author is used for checking rights. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10 and 14.4.7 by returning a safe script API.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 14.4.1 before 14.4.7; 14.10-rc1 — fixed in 14.4.7

How to fix

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

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/905cdd7c421dbf8c565557cdc773ab1aa9028f83
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-pwfv-3cvg-9m4c
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20380
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/905cdd7c421dbf8c565557cdc773ab1aa9028f83
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-pwfv-3cvg-9m4c
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20380
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20380

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