XWiki Platform vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in the deleted attachments list

Description

The XWiki Platform Index UI is an Index of all pages, attachments, orphans and deleted pages and attachments for XWiki Platform, a generic wiki platform. Prior to versions 13.10.6 and 14.3, it's possible to store JavaScript which will be executed by anyone viewing the deleted attachments index with an attachment containing javascript in its name. This issue has been patched in XWiki 13.10.6 and 14.3. As a workaround, modify fix the vulnerability by editing the wiki page `XWiki.DeletedAttachments` with the object editor, open the `JavaScriptExtension` object and apply on the content the changes that can be found on the fix commit.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

60.2% · top 0.9% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.9.

Weakness

• CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
• CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-80 and its CVEs

Affected products

• xwiki · xwiki-platform

  • affected >= 2.2-milestone-1, < 13.10.6
  • affected >= 14.0, < 14.3

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-index-uiGHSA-gjmq-x5x7-wc36 (opens in a new tab)

References (3)

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-gjmq-x5x7-wc36 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/6705b0cd0289d1c90ed354bd4ecc1508c4b25745 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19613 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-gjmq-x5x7-wc36 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 23 Apr 2025, 17:12 UTC.