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CVE-2024-43401: In XWiki Platform, payloads stored in content is executed when a user with script/programming right edit them

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A user without script/programming right can trick a user with elevated rights to edit a content with a malicious payload using a WYSIWYG editor. The user with elevated rights is not warned beforehand that they are going to edit possibly dangerous content. The payload is executed at edit time. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10RC1.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: through 15.9

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-f963-4cq8-2gw7
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20331
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21311
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21481
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21482
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21483
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21484
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21485
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21486
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21487
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21488
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21489

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