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GHSA-859x-p6jp-rc2w: xwiki contains Incorrect Authorization

Impact

It’s possible to execute a script with the right of another user (provided the target user does not have programming right).

For example, the following:

{{context document="xwiki:XWiki.userwithscriptright" transformationContext="document"}}{{velocity}}Hello from Velocity!{{/velocity}}{{/context}}

written by a user not having script right (for example in the user’s profile) should produce an error (the user is not allowed to write scripts). However, because of the vulnerability, if the author of the document “xwiki:XWiki.userwithscriptright” has script right (but not programming right) the script will be executed with as if it was written by the target user.

Patches

The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.8RC1, 14.4.5 and 13.10.10.

Workarounds

There’s no workaround for this issue.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19856

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  1. GitHub Advisory Database
  2. GitHub Reviewed
  3. CVE-2023-26056

xwiki contains Incorrect Authorization

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 1, 2023 in xwiki/xwiki-platform • Updated Mar 3, 2023

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 3.0-milestone-1, < 13.10.10

>= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.5

>= 14.5, < 14.8-rc-1

Patched versions

13.10.10

14.4.5

14.8-rc-1

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Mar 2, 2023

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Mar 3, 2023

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CVE-2023-26056: XWIKI-19856: Bad execution setup on the context macro · xwiki/xwiki-platform@4b75f21

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 3.0-milestone-1, it's possible to execute a script with the right of another user, provided the target user does not have programming right. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.8-rc-1, 14.4.5, and 13.10.10. There are no known workarounds for this issue.