A vulnerability has been found in XWiki Platform 13.10.7/14.4.1/14.5RC1 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

XWiki Platform is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) that may allow attackers to delete or rename tags without needing any confirmation. The problem has been patched in XWiki 13.10.7, 14.4.1 and 14.5RC1. Workarounds: It's possible to patch existing instances directly by editing the page Main.Tags and add this kind of check, in the code for renaming and for deleting: ``` #if (!$services.csrf.isTokenValid($request.get('form_token'))) #set ($discard = $response.sendError(401, "Wrong CSRF token")) #end ```

The weakness was disclosed 11/24/2022 as GHSA-mq7h-5574-hw9f. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-41927 since 09/30/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying the patch 7fd4cda0590180c4d34f557597e9e10e263def9e is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

The entries VDB-263234, VDB-265312, VDB-267082 and VDB-267086 are pretty similar.

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• Content Management System

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• XWiki

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• 13.10.7
• 14.4.1
• 14.5RC1

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• open-source

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