XWikiplatform Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2024-31996 - Vulnerability Database

XWikiplatform Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2024-31996

Critical

Reference: CVE-2024-31996

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31996

Title: XWikiplatform Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability

Overview:

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 3.0.1 and prior to versions 4.10.19 15.5.4 and 15.10-rc-1 the HTML escaping of escaping tool that is used in XWiki doesn39t escape which when used in certain places allows XWiki syntax injection and thereby remote code execution. The vulnerability has been fixed in XWiki 14.10.19 15.5.5 and 15.9 RC1. Apart from upgrading there is no generic workaround. However replacing escapetool.html by escapetool.xml in XWiki documents fixes the vulnerability. In a standard XWiki installation the maintainers are only aware of the document Panels.PanelLayoutUpdate that exposes this vulnerability patching this document is thus a workaround. Any extension could expose this vulnerability and might thus require patching too.