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CVE-2023-29201

9.0 criticalEPSS 1.2%

Critical (9.0) in xwiki xwiki. EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml 14.6-rc-1.

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The "restricted" mode of the HTML cleaner in XWiki, introduced in version 4.2-milestone-1, only escaped `<script>` and `<style>`-tags but neither attributes that can be used to inject scripts nor other dangerous HTML tags like `<iframe>`. As a consequence, any code relying on this "restricted" mode for security is vulnerable to JavaScript injection ("cross-site scripting"/XSS). When a privileged user with programming rights visits such a comment in XWiki, the malicious JavaScript code is executed in the context of the user session. This allows server-side code execution with programming rights, impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the XWiki instance. This problem has been patched in XWiki 14.6 RC1 with the introduction of a filter with allowed HTML elements and attributes that is enabled in restricted mode. There are no known workarounds apart from upgrading to a version including the fix.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.0 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-m3jr-cvhj-f35jMavenorg.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml>=4.2-milestone-1 <14.6-rc-114.6-rc-1

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