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CVE-2023-35166 Critical · 10.0 EPSS 62.2%

Privilege escalation (PR) from account through TipsPanel

xwiki · xwiki-platform

Summary

The flaw is an incorrect authorization issue in the TipsPanel component of xwiki-platform, the generic wiki platform from XWiki. An attacker with a low-privileged account who creates a tip UI extension can get wiki content executed with the rights of the TipsPanel author, and this network-reachable attack requires no user interaction.

Official description · CVE.org

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to execute any wiki content with the right of the TipsPanel author by creating a tip UI extension. This has been patched in XWiki 15.1-rc-1 and 14.10.5.

Breakdown
26.8 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 20 Jun 2023. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

2 fixes in xwiki-platform-help-ui over 18 months. The latest fix listed for xwiki-platform-help-ui is 16.5.0.

Fixes in xwiki-platform-help-uiMaven package, by fixed version. Earlier and later fixes in the same package, not necessarily the same bug.

  1. 15.1-rc-1CVE-2023-3516620 Jun 2023
  2. 16.5.0CVE-2024-5587712 Dec 2024Latest listed

techniques

No techniques linked

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.

Am I affected? What do I upgrade to?

From GitHub Security Advisories and OSV

1 package in 1 ecosystem. Main package: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-help-ui.

Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-help-uiGHSA-h7cw-44vp-jq7h

Upgrade to 14.10.5

Also affected, despite being newer: 15.0-rc-1 up to 15.1-rc-1.

Set the version to 14.10.5 or later in your pom.xml or build.gradle.

The first fix for CVE-2023-35166. No other CVE tracked by Patchfirst affects this package.

Affected versions, by release line

If you runUpgrade to
15.0-rc-1 up to 15.1-rc-115.1-rc-1
8.1-milestone-1 up to 14.10.514.10.5

“Up to” means the second version is the fix and is not affected.

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What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

References

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