XWiki Rendering's footnote macro vulnerable to privilege escalation via the footnote macro
CVE-2023-37912

10CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Xwiki
Status
Xwiki-rendering
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 October 2023

Summary

The vulnerability in XWiki Rendering allows the footnote macro to execute content in a different context than intended. This misconfiguration can lead to privilege escalation from a user account to programming rights, enabling remote code execution. The flaw particularly arises when combined with the include macro, posing significant risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of entire XWiki installations. Users are urged to upgrade to XWiki versions 14.10.6 or 15.1-rc-1 to mitigate the risk, as there are no workarounds available.

Affected Version(s)

xwiki-rendering < 14.10.6 < 14.10.6

xwiki-rendering >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.1-rc-1 < 15.0-rc-1, 15.1-rc-1

References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/security/advisor...
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/commit/5f558b8fa...
x_refsource_MISC
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-688
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
10
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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