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CVE-2023-29508: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-livedata-macro vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% 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-79

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. A user without script rights can introduce a stored XSS by using the Live Data macro, if the last author of the content of the page has script rights. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10, 14.4.7, and 13.10.11.

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/security/advisories/GHSA-hmm7-6ph9-8jf2
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20312
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-hmm7-6ph9-8jf2
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20312
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-hmm7-6ph9-8jf2
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20312

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