FKIE_CVE-2023-36477

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-06-30 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:06
Severity
9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with edit rights can edit all pages in the `CKEditor' space. This makes it possible to perform a variety of harmful actions, such as removing technical documents, leading to loss of service and editing the javascript configuration of CKEditor, leading to persistent XSS. This issue has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6 and XWiki 15.1. This issue has been patched on the CKEditor Integration extension 1.64.9 for XWiki version older than 14.6RC1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually address the issue by restricting the `edit` and `delete` rights to a trusted user or group (e.g. the `XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup` group), implicitly disabling those rights for all other users. See commit `9d9d86179` for details.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9d9d86179457cb8dc48b4491510537878800be4fPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-793w-g325-hrw2Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://jira.xwiki.org/browse/CKEDITOR-508Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20590Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9d9d86179457cb8dc48b4491510537878800be4fPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-793w-g325-hrw2Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/CKEDITOR-508Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20590Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xwiki ckeditor_integration *
xwiki xwiki *
xwiki xwiki 15.0
xwiki xwiki 15.0
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