CVE-2023-40572 CRITICAL

CVE-2023-40572: XWiki Platform vulnerable to CSRF privilege escalation/RCE via the create action

Vendor Xwiki
Product xwiki-platform
Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF
Published August 24, 2023
Last update October 2, 2024
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CVSS base score

9.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The create action is vulnerable to a CSRF attack, allowing script and thus remote code execution when targeting a user with script/programming right, thus compromising the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. When a user with script right views this image and a log message `ERROR foo - Script executed!` appears in the log, the XWiki installation is vulnerable. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and 15.4RC1 by requiring a CSRF token for the actual page creation.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 24, 2023 CVE published
October 2, 2024 Record updated