Authenticated code execution via unescaped theme styles
Published Apr 16, 2023 · Updated Feb 6, 2025
Code injection in XWiki Platform allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary Groovy, Python, or Velocity code. FlamingoThemesCode.WebHomeSheet renders attacker-controlled Theme Class style values inside an HTML block without escaping them, allowing script macros to break out of the intended context. Exploitation requires permission to add an object to a page, and the default-installed page grants successful attackers full access to the XWiki installation.
Summary
What happened
Code injection in XWiki Platform allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary Groovy, Python, or Velocity code. FlamingoThemesCode.WebHomeSheet renders attacker-controlled Theme Class style values inside an HTML block without escaping them, allowing script macros to break out of the intended context. Exploitation requires permission to add an object to a page, and the default-installed page grants successful attackers full access to the XWiki installation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-30537
- Published
- Apr 16, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 6, 2025
- Vendor
- CryptPad
- Product
- XWiki Platform
- Classifications
- CWE-95, CWE-94, T1059
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 16, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 6, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Is a vulnerable build present?
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- Affected versionversion=>= 12.6.6, < 13.10.11
- Affected versionversion=>= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.7
- Affected versionversion=>= 14.5, < 14.10
What conditions does exploitation require?
What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
Daily unique IPs observed by Shadowserver honeypots for known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs). Missing observations do not establish an absence of attacks.
Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Upstream Theme Class reproduction procedureproof of concept · demonstrated
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Technologies
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