CVE-2023-36469Code injection through NotificationRSSService in XWiki Platform
- 10.0CriticalCVSS base score
- 82.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user who can edit their own user profile and notification settings can execute arbitrary script macros including Groovy and Python macros that allow remote code execution including unrestricted read and write access to all wiki contents. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6 and 15.2RC1. Users are advised to update. As a workaround the main security fix can be manually applied by patching the affected document `XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationRSSService`. This will break the link to the differences, though as this requires additional changes to Velocity templates as shown in the patch. While the default template is available in the instance and can be easily patched, the template for mentions is contained in a `.jar`-file and thus cannot be fixed without replacing that jar.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 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 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 82.0% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (12 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 10.0.
Affected products
- affected >= 9.6-rc-1, < 14.10.6
- affected >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.2-rc-1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-notifications-uiGHSA-94pf-92hw-2hjc (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-94pf-92hw-2hjc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/217e5bb7a657f2991b154a16ef4d5ae9c29ad39c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/217e5bb7a657f2991b154a16ef4d5ae9c29ad39c#diff-7221a548809fa2ba34348556f4b5bd436463c559ebdf691197932ee7ce4478ca (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/217e5bb7a657f2991b154a16ef4d5ae9c29ad39c#diff-b261c6eac3108c3e6e734054c28a78f59d3439ab72fe8582dadf87670a0d15a4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20610 (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-2023-1757 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-94pf-92hw-2hjc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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