CVE-2023-37912

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    CVE-2023-37912

    Published: 25 Oct 2023Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: XWiki Rendering's footnote macro vulnerable to privilege escalation via the footnote macro

    Details: XWiki Rendering is a generic Rendering system that converts textual input in a given syntax into another syntax. Prior to version 14.10.6 of `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes` and `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes` and prior to version 15.1-rc-1 of `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes`, the footnote macro executed its content in a potentially different context than the one in which it was defined. In particular in combination with the include macro, this allows privilege escalation from a simple user account in XWiki to programming rights and thus remote code execution, impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6 and 15.1-rc-1. There is no workaround apart from upgrading to a fixed version of the footnote macro.

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Affected versions

    xwiki-rendering-14.10.5
    xwiki-rendering-14.10.4
    xwiki-rendering-14.10.3
    xwiki-rendering-14.10.2
    xwiki-rendering-14.10.1
    xwiki-rendering-14.10

    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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