CVE-2023-29209

CRITICALNVD 9.99.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-04-12. NVD baseline CVSS 9.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2023-1256 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.1%CVSS: 9.9Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents including the legacy notification activity macro 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 macro parameters of the legacy notification activity macro. This macro is installed by default in XWiki. The vulnerability can be exploited via every wiki page that is editable including the user's profile, but also with just view rights using the HTMLConverter that is part of the CKEditor integration which is bundled with XWiki. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7 and 14.10.

CVSS v3
9.9
EG Score
9.9CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
61
EG Risk 61/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity99% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
1.1%
EPSS %ILE
67th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.9 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

April 15, 2023

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Nov 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit.
Web page

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https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20258
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') in org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-notification-activitymacro · Advisory · xwiki/xwiki-platform · GitHub

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 943924908846 (xwiki/xwiki-platform)

Patch available: xwiki/xwiki-platform xwiki-platform-18.3.0 (contains commit 943924908846)

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/94392490884635c028199275db059a4f471e57bc

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-29209(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-notification-activitymacro @ 13.10.11 (fixes >= 10.9, < 13.10.11)—ghsa
mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-notification-activitymacro @ 14.10 (fixes >= 14.5, < 14.10)—ghsa
mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-notification-activitymacro @ 14.4.7 (fixes >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.7)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-notification-activitymacro—
  • 10.9 up to 13.10.11: fixed in 13.10.11
  • 14.0-rc-1 up to 14.4.7: fixed in 14.4.7
  • 14.5 up to 14.10: fixed in 14.10
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Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 263 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 163 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 67th percentile
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  3. 2026-11-12 23:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  4. 2026-11-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 67th percentile
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  6. 2026-11-11 22:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  7. 2026-11-11 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 67th percentile
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  9. 2026-11-10 21:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  10. 2026-11-10 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 66th percentile
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  12. 2026-11-09 21:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
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  15. 2026-11-08 20:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
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  18. 2026-11-07 19:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
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  21. 2026-11-06 18:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
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  24. 2026-11-05 18:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
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  2. 2026-11-04 17:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  3. 2026-11-04 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 66th percentile
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  6. 2026-11-03 16:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-03 16:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  8. 2026-11-02 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 66th percentile
  9. 2026-11-02 15:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-02 15:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  11. 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 66th percentile
  12. 2026-11-01 14:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  13. 2026-11-01 08:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pc2-x9qf-7j2q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-29209?
CVE-2023-29209 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 15, 2023. XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents including the legacy notification activity macro can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-29209 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-29209 was published on April 15, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-29209 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-29209 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (67th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-29209?
CVE-2023-29209 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-29209?
A fix for CVE-2023-29209 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2023-29209 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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