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XWiki < 11.10.5, 12.x < 12.2.1 RCE Vulnerability

🗓️ 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType 
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XWiki RCE Vulnerability in versions < 11.10.5 and 12.x < 12.2.

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CVE
CVE-2020-15171
10 Sep 202019:40
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Cvelist
CVE-2020-15171 Users with SCRIPT rights can execute arbitrary code in XWiki
10 Sep 202019:40
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EUVD
EUVD-2020-0862
7 Oct 202500:30
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Github Security Blog
Users with SCRIPT right can execute arbitrary code in XWiki
10 Sep 202019:19
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NCSC
Vulnerability fixed in XWiki
11 Sep 202000:00
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NVD
CVE-2020-15171
10 Sep 202020:15
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OSV
GHSA-7QW5-PQHC-XM4G Users with SCRIPT right can execute arbitrary code in XWiki
10 Sep 202019:19
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Prion
Code injection
10 Sep 202020:15
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RedhatCVE
CVE-2020-15171
22 May 202516:22
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.144569");
  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:"2020-09-14 05:57:30 +0000 (Mon, 14 Sep 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-09-11 02:31:00 +0000 (Fri, 11 Sep 2020)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-15171");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("XWiki < 11.10.5, 12.x < 12.2.1 RCE Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 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 remote code execution (RCE)
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Any user with SCRIPT right (EDIT right before XWiki 7.4) can gain access to
  the application server Servlet context which contains tools allowing to instantiate arbitrary Java objects and
  invoke methods that may lead to arbitrary code execution.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"XWiki prior to version 11.10.5 or 12.2.1.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 11.10.5, 12.2.1 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-7qw5-pqhc-xm4g");

  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: "11.10.5")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "11.10.5", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "12.0", test_version2: "12.2.0")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.2.1", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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