CVE-2023-40572

XWiki Platform vulnerable to CSRF privilege escalation/RCE via the create action

Severity Score

8.0

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Attend

*SSVC

Descriptions

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The create action is vulnerable to a CSRF attack, allowing script and thus remote code execution when targeting a user with script/programming right, thus compromising the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. When a user with script right views this image and a log message `ERROR foo - Script executed!` appears in the log, the XWiki installation is vulnerable. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and 15.4RC1 by requiring a CSRF token for the actual page creation.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Attend

Exploitation

Poc

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Total

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-08-16 CVE Reserved
2023-08-24 CVE Published
2024-09-25 EPSS Updated
2024-10-02 CVE Updated
2024-10-02 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20849	2024-10-02

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/4b20528808d0c311290b0d9ab2cfc44063380ef7	2023-09-01
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-4f8m-7h83-9f6m	2023-09-01

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"				< 14.10.9 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version " < 14.10.9"		-		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.0 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.0"		-		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.0 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.0"		rc1		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.1 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.1"		-		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.1 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.1"		rc1		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.2 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.2"		-		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.2 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.2"		rc1		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.3 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.3"		-		Affected
Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki"		Xwiki Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki"				15.3 Search vendor "Xwiki" for product "Xwiki" and version "15.3"		rc1		Affected