CVE-2023-29508

HIGH8.9EPSS 4.4%

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-livedata-macro vulnerable to Basic Cross-site Scripting

Published: 4/12/2023Modified: 2/6/2025

Description

### Impact A user without script rights can introduce a stored XSS by using the Live Data macro, if the last author of the content of the page has script rights. For instance, by adding the LiveData below in the about section of the profile of a user created by an admin. ```javascript {{liveData id="movies" properties="title,description"}} { "data": { "count": 1, "entries": [ { "title": "Meet John Doe", "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033891/", "description": "<img onerror='alert(1)' src='foo' />" } ] }, "meta": { "propertyDescriptors": [ { "id": "title", "name": "Title", "visible": true, "displayer": {"id": "link", "propertyHref": "url"} }, { "id": "description", "name": "Description", "visible": true, "displayer": "html" } ] } } {{/liveData}} ``` ### Patches This has been patched in XWiki 14.10, 14.4.7, and 13.10.11. ### Workarounds No known workaround. ### References - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20312 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [Jira](http://jira.xwiki.org/) * Email us at [Security ML](mailto:[email protected])

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH8.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

References (4)