XWiki 14.0-rc-1 < 14.4.8, 14.5 < 14.10.4 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GHSA-rwwx-6572-mp29)
🗓️ 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:xwiki:xwiki";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.124467");
script_version("2025-11-19T05:40:23+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-11-19 05:40:23 +0000 (Wed, 19 Nov 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-11-16 12:10:52 +0000 (Thu, 16 Nov 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"8.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-10-31 19:17:00 +0000 (Tue, 31 Oct 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-37910");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("XWiki 14.0-rc-1 < 14.4.8, 14.5 < 14.10.4 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GHSA-rwwx-6572-mp29)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_xwiki_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("xwiki/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Xwiki is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An attacker with edit access on any document (can be the user
profile which is editable by default) can move any attachment of any other document to this
attacker-controlled document. This allows the attacker to access and possibly publish any
attachment of which the name is known, regardless if the attacker has view or edit rights on
the source document of this attachment.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"XWiki version 14.0-rc-1 prior to 14.4.8 and 14.5 prior to 14.10.4.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 14.4.8, 14.10.4 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rwwx-6572-mp29");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) )
exit( 0 );
if ( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_in_range_exclusive( version:version, test_version_lo:"14.0-rc-1", test_version_up:"14.4.8" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"14.4.8", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
if( version_in_range_exclusive( version:version, test_version_lo:"14.5", test_version_up:"14.10.4" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"14.10.4", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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19 Nov 2025 00:00Current
8.1High risk
Vulners AI Score8.1
CVSS 3.18.1
EPSS0.00573
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