{"id":"GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4","summary":"org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki Eval Injection vulnerability","details":"### Impact\nAny user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter.\n\nA proof of concept exploit is to open \u003cxwiki-host\u003e/xwiki/bin/view/WikiManager/DeleteWiki?wikiId=%22+%2F%7D%7D+%7B%7Basync+async%3D%22true%22+cached%3D%22false%22+context%3D%22doc.reference%22%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello+from+groovy%21%22%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D where \u003cxwiki-host\u003e is the URL of your XWiki installation.\n\n### Patches\nThe problem has been patched on XWiki  13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.\n\n### Workarounds\nThe issue can be fixed manually applying this [patch](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64).\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Open an issue in [Jira XWiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/)\n* Email us at [Security Mailing List](mailto:security@xwiki.org)\n","aliases":["CVE-2023-29211"],"modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:01.199932022Z","published":"2023-04-12T20:35:30Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2023-04-12T20:35:30Z","nvd_published_at":"2023-04-16T07:15:00Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-94","CWE-95"],"severity":"CRITICAL"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29211"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20297"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.3-milestone-2"},{"fixed":"13.10.11"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/04/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4.json"}},{"package":{"name":"org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"14.0-rc-1"},{"fixed":"14.4.7"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/04/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4.json"}},{"package":{"name":"org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"14.5"},{"fixed":"14.10"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/04/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}