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XWiki Platform vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting via back and xcontinue parameters in resubmit template

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 22, 2023 in xwiki/xwiki-platform • Updated Nov 12, 2023

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templates (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.5-milestone-2, < 14.10.5
>= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.1-rc-1

Patched versions

14.10.5
15.1-rc-1

Description

Impact

Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS).
It's possible to exploit the resubmit template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as:

xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/Main?xpage=resubmit&resubmit=javascript:alert(document.domain)&xback=javascript:alert(document.domain)

This vulnerability exists since XWiki 2.5-milestone-2.

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.

Workarounds

It's possible to workaround the vulnerability by editing the template resubmit.vm to perform checks on it, but note that the appropriate fix involves new APIs that have been recently introduced in XWiki. See the referenced jira tickets.

References

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by René de Sain @renniepak.

References

@surli surli published to xwiki/xwiki-platform Jun 22, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 22, 2023
Reviewed Jun 22, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 23, 2023
Last updated Nov 12, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

54.625%
(98th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-35160

GHSA ID

GHSA-r8xc-xxh3-q5x3

Source code

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