CVE-2023-35159
XWiki Platform vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting via xredirect parameter in deletespace template
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Users are able to forge an URL with a payload allowing to inject Javascript in the page (XSS). It's possible to exploit the deletespace template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > xwiki/bin/deletespace/Sandbox/?xredirect=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 3.4-milestone-1. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.5 and 15.1-rc-1.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (7 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: Critical 9.7.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected >= 3.4-milestone-1, < 14.10.5
- affected >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.1-rc-1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web-templatesGHSA-x234-mg7q-m8g8 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-x234-mg7q-m8g8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/5c20ff5e3bdea50f1053fe99a27e011b8d0e4b34 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20583 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20612 (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-x234-mg7q-m8g8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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