CVE-2023-46243Code execution via the edit action in XWiki platform
- 10.0CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 30% 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. In affected versions it's possible for a user to execute any content with the right of an existing document's content author, provided the user have edit right on it. A crafted URL of the form ` /xwiki/bin/edit//?content=%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello+from+Groovy%21%22%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D&xpage=view` can be used to execute arbitrary groovy code on the server. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki versions 14.10.6 and 15.2RC1. Users are advised to update. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
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
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Record updated
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
EPSS rose above 1%
0.98% → 1.2%
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)
- 1.2% · top 30% 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 >= 1.0, < 14.10.6
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreGHSA-g2qq-c5j9-5w5w (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-g2qq-c5j9-5w5w (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/a0e6ca083b36be6f183b9af33ae735c1e02010f4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20385 (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-2023-2962 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g2qq-c5j9-5w5w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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