XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation from view right using Invitation.InvitationCommon

Impact

Any user with view rights 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 Invitation.InvitationCommon. This page is installed by default.

See https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20283 for the reproduction steps.

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Workarounds

The issue can be fixed by applying this patch on Invitation.InvitationCommon.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/3d055a0a5ec42fdebce4d71ee98f94553fdbfebf
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20283

For more information

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