Headline

GHSA-rfh6-mg6h-h668: xwiki-platform-administration-ui vulnerable to privilege escalation

Impact

Any user with edit rights on a page (e.g., it’s own user page), can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the section ids in XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet. This page is installed by default.

Reproduction steps are described in https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20261

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Workarounds

The issue can be fixed by applying this patch on XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20261
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f1e310826a19acdcdecdecdcfe171d21f24d6ede

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Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 1.5M2, < 13.10.11

>= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.8

>= 14.5, < 14.10.1

Patched versions

13.10.11

14.4.8

14.10.1

Description

Impact

Any user with edit rights on a page (e.g., it’s own user page), can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the section ids in XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet. This page is installed by default.

Reproduction steps are described in https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20261

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Workarounds

The issue can be fixed by applying this patch on XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet.

References