XWiki Admin Tools Application up to 4.5.0 cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in XWiki Admin Tools Application up to 4.5.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-48293. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in XWiki Admin Tools Application up to 4.5.0 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The XWiki Admin Tools Application provides tools to help the administration of XWiki. Prior to version 4.5.1, a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the query on XWiki tool allows executing arbitrary database queries on the database of the XWiki installation. Among other things, this allows modifying and deleting all data of the wiki. This could be both used to damage the wiki and to create an account with elevated privileges for the attacker, thus impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki instance. A possible attack vector are comments on the wiki, by embedding an image with wiki syntax like `[[image:path:/xwiki/bin/view/Admin/QueryOnXWiki?query=DELETE%20FROM%20xwikidoc]]`, all documents would be deleted from the database when an admin user views this comment. This has been patched in Admin Tools Application 4.5.1 by adding form token checks. Some workarounds are available. The patch can also be applied manually to the affected pages. Alternatively, if the query tool is not needed, by deleting the document `Admin.SQLToolsGroovy`, all database query tools can be deactivated.

The weakness was published 11/20/2023 as GHSA-4f4c-rhjv-4wgv. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-48293 since 11/14/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 4.5.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 45298b4fbcafba6914537dcdd798a1e1385f9e46 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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• Admin Tools Application

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• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5.0

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• open-source

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