xwiki · xwiki-platform
The xwiki-platform product's flamingo theme UI component (org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-ui) contains an eval injection flaw: the parameters of the documentTree macro are not properly escaped, and that macro is installed by default on the FlamingoThemesCode.WebHome page. An attacker who holds view rights on commonly accessible documents, with no further authentication or user interaction required, can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code, gaining full access to the XWiki installation.
XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents 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 `documentTree` macro parameters in This macro is installed by default in `FlamingoThemesCode.WebHome`. This page is installed by default. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7 and 14.10.
Disclosed on 16 Apr 2023. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
4 fixes in xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-ui over 11 months. The latest fix listed for xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-ui is 14.10.
No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
1 package in 1 ecosystem. Main package: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-ui.
Upgrade to 14.10 or later
Fixes this CVE and 1 other known vulnerability in this package (CVE-2023-26477).
Set the version to 14.10 or later in your pom.xml or build.gradle.
The first fix for CVE-2023-29509.
| If you run | Upgrade to |
|---|---|
| 14.5 up to 14.10 | 14.10 |
| 14.0-rc-1 up to 14.4.7 | 14.4.7 |
| 7.2-rc-1 up to 13.10.11 | 13.10.11 |
“Up to” means the second version is the fix and is not affected.