XWiki 4.3-milestone-2 < 14.10.5 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GHSA-5mf8-v43w-mfxp)
🗓️ 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The vulnerability of the XWiki Platform, related to the failure to implement measures to neutralize instructions in dynamically executed code, allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code. | 7 Sep 202300:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2023-40177 | 24 Aug 202300:14 | – | circl | |
| XWiki Platform 代码注入漏洞 | 23 Aug 202300:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2023-40177 | 23 Aug 202320:11 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2023-40177 XWiki Platform privilege escalation (PR) from account through AWM content fields | 23 Aug 202320:11 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2023-2215 | 3 Oct 202520:07 | – | euvd | |
| XWiki Platform privilege escalation (PR) from account through AWM content fields | 21 Aug 202320:10 | – | github | |
| CVE-2023-40177 | 23 Aug 202321:15 | – | nvd | |
| GHSA-5MF8-V43W-MFXP XWiki Platform privilege escalation (PR) from account through AWM content fields | 21 Aug 202320:10 | – | osv | |
| Privilege escalation | 23 Aug 202321:15 | – | prion |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| github | www.github.com/advisories/GHSA-5mf8-v43w-mfxp |
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.127529");
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:"2023-08-24 08:15:22 +0000 (Thu, 24 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-08-29 15:23:00 +0000 (Tue, 29 Aug 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-40177");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("XWiki 4.3-milestone-2 < 14.10.5 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GHSA-5mf8-v43w-mfxp)");
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:"Any registered user can use the content field of their user
profile page to execute arbitrary scripts with programming rights, thus effectively performing
rights escalation.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"XWiki version 4.3-milestone-2 prior to 14.10.5.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 14.10.5 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5mf8-v43w-mfxp");
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:"4.3-milestone-2", test_version_up:"14.10.5" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"14.10.5", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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