CVE-2023-35162XPlatform Wiki vulnerable to cross-site scripting via xcontinue parameter in preview actions template
- 9.7CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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 previewactions template to perform a XSS, e.g. by using URL such as: > <hostname>/xwiki/bin/get/FlamingoThemes/Cerulean xpage=xpart&vm=previewactions.vm&xcontinue=javascript:alert(document.domain). This vulnerability exists since XWiki 6.1-rc-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. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits1
Nuclei templates1 template
- XWiki < 14.10.5 - Cross-Site Scripting (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-35162.yamlSeverity medium
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 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)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (13 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.
Affected products
- affected >= 6.1-rc-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-flamingo-skin-resourcesGHSA-q9hg-9qj2-mxf9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-q9hg-9qj2-mxf9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9f01166b1a8ee9639666099eb5040302df067e4d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20342 (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
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-1865 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-q9hg-9qj2-mxf9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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