CVE-2023-36477

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    CVE-2023-36477

    Published: 30 Jun 2023Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary: Persistent Cross-site Scripting (XSS) through CKEditor Configuration pages in XWiki Platform

    Details: XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with edit rights can edit all pages in the `CKEditor' space. This makes it possible to perform a variety of harmful actions, such as removing technical documents, leading to loss of service and editing the javascript configuration of CKEditor, leading to persistent XSS. This issue has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6 and XWiki 15.1. This issue has been patched on the CKEditor Integration extension 1.64.9 for XWiki version older than 14.6RC1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually address the issue by restricting the `edit` and `delete` rights to a trusted user or group (e.g. the `XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup` group), implicitly disabling those rights for all other users. See commit `9d9d86179` for details.

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 505dd51eeb46f4cbf224c714e327cc793df99ccb

    Affected versions

    application-ckeditor-pom-1.64.8
    application-ckeditor-pom-1.64.7
    application-ckeditor-pom-1.64.6
    application-ckeditor-pom-1.64.5
    application-ckeditor-pom-1.64.4
    application-ckeditor-pom-1.64.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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