XWiki Platform Attachment UI vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the move attachment form

Description

XWiki Platform Attachment UI provides a macro to easily upload and select attachments for XWiki Platform, a generic wiki platform. Starting with version 14.0-rc-1 and prior to 14.4-rc-1, it's possible to store JavaScript in an attachment name, which will be executed by anyone trying to move the corresponding attachment. This issue has been patched in XWiki 14.4-rc-1. As a workaround, one may copy `moveStep1.vm` to `webapp/xwiki/templates/moveStep1.vm` and replace vulnerable code with code from the patch.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

58.2% · top 0.9% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: poc · 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 >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4-rc-1

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-attachment-uiGHSA-9r9j-57rf-f6vj (opens in a new tab)

References (4)

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-9r9j-57rf-f6vj (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/fbc4bfbae4f6ce8109addb281de86a03acdb9277 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19667 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/xwiki-platform-14.0-rc-1/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-attachment/xwiki-platform-attachment-api/src/main/resources/templates/attachment/moveStep1.vm (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-9r9j-57rf-f6vj (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 22 Apr 2025, 17:22 UTC.