Vulnerabilities / CVE-2023-29202

critical

CVE-2023-29202

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-rss Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Published Modified CWE 79
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA.

Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The RSS macro that is bundled in XWiki included the content of the feed items without any cleaning in the HTML output when the parameter `content` was set to `true`. This allowed arbitrary HTML and in particular also JavaScript injection and thus cross-site scripting (XSS) by specifying an RSS feed with malicious content. With the interaction of a user with programming rights, this could be used to execute arbitrary actions in the wiki, including privilege escalation, remote code execution, information disclosure, modifying or deleting content and sabotaging the wiki. The issue has been patched in XWiki 14.6 RC1, the content of the feed is now properly cleaned before being displayed. As a workaround, if the RSS macro isn't used in the wiki, the macro can be uninstalled by deleting `WEB-INF/lib/xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-rss-XX.jar`, where `XX` is XWiki's version, in the web application's directory.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-rss, org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-rss14.6-rc-1
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SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-rssno fix listed
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-rss14.6-rc-1

References

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