CVE-2023-29520

Page render failure due to broken translations in xwiki-platform

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track*

*SSVC

Descriptions

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object. This will lead to a broken page. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no workarounds other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Complete

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track*

Exploitation

Poc

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-04-07 CVE Reserved
2023-04-18 CVE Published
2025-02-05 CVE Updated
2025-02-05 First Exploit
2025-04-15 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-248: Uncaught Exception
CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-9jq5-xwqw-q8j3	2025-02-05
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20460	2025-02-05

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				< 13.10.11 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version " < 13.10.11"		-		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				>= 14.0 < 14.4.8 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version " >= 14.0 < 14.4.8"		-		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				>= 14.5 < 14.10.1 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version " >= 14.5 < 14.10.1"		-		Affected