XWiki Platform 14.10.8/15.3 cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in XWiki Platform 14.10.8/15.3. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-40572. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in XWiki Platform 14.10.8/15.3 (Content Management System). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block. 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 a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The create action is vulnerable to a CSRF attack, allowing script and thus remote code execution when targeting a user with script/programming right, thus compromising the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. When a user with script right views this image and a log message `ERROR foo - Script executed!` appears in the log, the XWiki installation is vulnerable. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and 15.4RC1 by requiring a CSRF token for the actual page creation.

The weakness was released 08/24/2023 as GHSA-4f8m-7h83-9f6m. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-40572 since 08/16/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 14.10.9 or 15.4RC1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 4b20528808d0c311290b0d9ab2cfc44063380ef7 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Content Management System

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• XWiki

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• Platform

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• 14.10.8
• 15.3

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• open-source

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