XWiki Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) for actions on tags

Impact

It’s possible to perform a CSRF attack for adding or removing tags on XWiki pages.

Patches

The problem has been patched in XWiki 13.10.5 and 14.3.

Workarounds

It’s possible to fix the issue without upgrading by locally modifying the documentTags.vm template in your filesystem, to apply the changes exposed there: https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/7ca56e40cf79a468cea54d3480b6b403f259f9ae.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19550

For more information

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