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XWiki Platform vulnerable to page render failure due to broken translations

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 18, 2023 in xwiki/xwiki-platform • Updated Nov 4, 2023

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-localization-source-wiki (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 4.3-milestone-2, < 13.10.11
>= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.8
>= 14.5, < 14.10.1

Patched versions

13.10.11
14.4.8
14.10.1

Description

Impact

It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object.

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Workarounds

There is no other workaround other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20460

For more information

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References

@tmortagne tmortagne published to xwiki/xwiki-platform Apr 18, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 19, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 20, 2023
Reviewed Apr 20, 2023
Last updated Nov 4, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2023-29520

GHSA ID

GHSA-9jq5-xwqw-q8j3

Source code

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