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CVE-2023-35160: XWiki Platform vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting via back and xcontinue parameters in resubmit template

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-06-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-87

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS). It's possible to exploit the resubmit template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/Main xpage=resubmit&resubmit=javascript:alert(document.domain)&xback=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 2.5-milestone-2. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 3.0 before 14.10.5; 2.5-milestone2, 15.0 — fixed in 14.10.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 14.10.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/dbc92dcdace33823ffd1e1591617006cb5fc6a7f
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-r8xc-xxh3-q5x3
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20343
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20583
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/dbc92dcdace33823ffd1e1591617006cb5fc6a7f
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-r8xc-xxh3-q5x3
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20343
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20583

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