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CVE-2023-29511: xwiki-platform-administration-ui vulnerable to privilege escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% 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 Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with edit rights on a page (e.g., it's own user page), 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 section ids in `XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet`. This page is installed by default. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki versions 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 1.7 before 13.10.11; from 14.0 (excl.) before 14.4.8; from 14.5 before 14.10.1; 14.0, 14.0-rc1 — fixed in 13.10.11, 14.10.1, 14.4.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 13.10.11, 14.10.1, 14.4.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f1e310826a19acdcdecdecdcfe171d21f24d6ede
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rfh6-mg6h-h668
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20261
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f1e310826a19acdcdecdecdcfe171d21f24d6ede
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rfh6-mg6h-h668
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20261

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