XWiki Platform vulnerable to cross-site scripting in target parameter via share page by email
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS).
For instance, the following URL execute an alter on the browser: <xwiki-host>/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?viewer=share&send=1&target=&target=%3Cimg+src+onerror%3Dalert%28document.domain%29%3E+%3Cimg+src+onerror%3Dalert%28document.domain%29%3E+%3Crenniepak%40intigriti.me%3E&includeDocument=inline&message=I+wanted+to+share+this+page+with+you., where <xwiki-host> is the URL of your XWiki installation.
See https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20370 for me details.
Patches
The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.4, and 14.4.8.
Workarounds
The fix is only impacting Velocity templates and page contents, so applying this patch is enough to fix the issue.
References
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20370
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
- Email us at Security Mailing List
Attribution
This vulnerability has been reported on Intigriti by René de Sain @renniepak.
🎯 Affected products2
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-sharepage-api:>= 2.6-rc-2, < 14.4.8
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-sharepage-api:>= 14.5, < 14.10.4
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-fwwj-wg89-7h4c
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ca88ebdefb2c9fa41490959cce9f9e62404799e7
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20370
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-35155
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fwwj-wg89-7h4c