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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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XWiki 14.0-rc-1 < 14.4.8, 14.5 < 14.10.4 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GHSA-rwwx-6572-mp29

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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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