XWiki < 14.10.9, 15.0-rc-1 < 15.4 Improper Access Control Vulnerability (GHSA-8xhr-x3v8-rghj)
🗓️ 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The vulnerability of the XWiki Platform, a platform for creating collaborative web applications, is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to execute arbitrary code. | 7 Sep 202300:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2023-40573 | 24 Aug 202307:12 | – | circl | |
| XWiki Platform 访问控制错误漏洞 | 24 Aug 202300:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2023-40573 | 24 Aug 202301:31 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2023-40573 XWiki Platform's Groovy jobs check the wrong author, allowing remote code execution | 24 Aug 202301:31 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2023-2250 | 3 Oct 202520:07 | – | euvd | |
| XWiki Platform's Groovy jobs check the wrong author, allowing remote code execution | 23 Aug 202320:41 | – | github | |
| CVE-2023-40573 | 24 Aug 202302:15 | – | nvd | |
| GHSA-8XHR-X3V8-RGHJ XWiki Platform's Groovy jobs check the wrong author, allowing remote code execution | 23 Aug 202320:41 | – | osv | |
| Cross site request forgery (csrf) | 24 Aug 202302:15 | – | prion |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| github | www.github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xhr-x3v8-rghj |
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.127532");
script_version("2026-01-29T08:35:42+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-01-29 08:35:42 +0000 (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-08-25 10:15:22 +0000 (Fri, 25 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:"2023-09-01 17:09:00 +0000 (Fri, 01 Sep 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-40573");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("XWiki < 14.10.9, 15.0-rc-1 < 15.4 Improper Access Control Vulnerability (GHSA-8xhr-x3v8-rghj)");
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 an improper access control vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"XWiki supports scheduled jobs that contain Groovy scripts.
Currently, the job checks the content author of the job for programming right. However, modifying
or adding a job script to a document doesn't modify the content author. Together with a CSRF
vulnerability in the job scheduler, this can be exploited for remote code execution by an
attacker with edit right on the wiki.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"XWiki version prior to 14.10.9 and 15.0-rc-1 prior to
15.4.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 14.10.9, 15.4 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xhr-x3v8-rghj");
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_is_less( version:version, test_version:"14.10.9" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"14.10.9", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
if( version_in_range_exclusive( version:version, test_version_lo:"15.0-rc-1", test_version_up:"15.4" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"15.4", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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