CVE-2024-31996

Summary

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 3.0.1 and prior to versions 4.10.19, 15.5.4, and 15.10-rc-1, the HTML escaping of escaping tool that is used in XWiki doesn't escape {, which, when used in certain places, allows XWiki syntax injection and thereby remote code execution. The vulnerability has been fixed in XWiki 14.10.19, 15.5.5, and 15.9 RC1. Apart from upgrading, there is no generic workaround. However, replacing $escapetool.html by $escapetool.xml in XWiki documents fixes the vulnerability. In a standard XWiki installation, the maintainers are only aware of the document Panels.PanelLayoutUpdate that exposes this vulnerability, patching this document is thus a workaround. Any extension could expose this vulnerability and might thus require patching, too.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
xwikixwiki-commons>= 3.0.1, < 14.10.19affected
xwikixwiki-commons>= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.4affected
xwikixwiki-commons>= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.9-rc-1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-95: CWE-95: Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: total

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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