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CVE-2023-35166: Privilege escalation (PR) from account through TipsPanel

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 62.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-06-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to execute any wiki content with the right of the TipsPanel author by creating a tip UI extension. This has been patched in XWiki 15.1-rc-1 and 14.10.5.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 8.1 before 14.10.5 — 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/98208c5bb1e8cdf3ff1ac35d8b3d1cb3c28b3263#diff-4e3467d2ef3871a68b2f910e67cf84531751b32e0126321be83c0f1ed5d90b29L176-R178
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-h7cw-44vp-jq7h
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20281
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/98208c5bb1e8cdf3ff1ac35d8b3d1cb3c28b3263#diff-4e3467d2ef3871a68b2f910e67cf84531751b32e0126321be83c0f1ed5d90b29L176-R178
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-h7cw-44vp-jq7h
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20281

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