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CVE-2023-38509: XWiki Platform's obfuscated email addresses should not be sorted

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-402

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. In org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-livetable-ui starting with version 3.5-milestone-1 and prior to versions 14.10.9 and 15.3-rc-1, the mail obfuscation configuration was not fully taken into account and is was still possible by obfuscated emails. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and XWiki 15.3-rc-1. A workaround is to modify the page `XWiki.LiveTableResultsMacros` following the patch.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 3.5 before 14.10.9 — fixed in 14.10.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 14.10.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1dfb6804d4d412794cbe0098d4972b8ac263df0
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1dfb6804d4d412794cbe0098d4972b8ac263df0c
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-g9w4-prf3-m25g
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20601
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1dfb6804d4d412794cbe0098d4972b8ac263df0
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1dfb6804d4d412794cbe0098d4972b8ac263df0c
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-g9w4-prf3-m25g
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20601

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