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CVE-2023-29520: Page render failure due to broken translations in xwiki-platform

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-248

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object. This will lead to a broken page. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no workarounds other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: before 13.10.11; from 14.0 before 14.4.8; from 14.5 before 14.10.1 — 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/security/advisories/GHSA-9jq5-xwqw-q8j3
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20460
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-9jq5-xwqw-q8j3
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20460

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