CVE-2023-26472

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26472
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-26472.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-26472
Aliases
Published
2023-03-02T18:25:06Z
Modified
2025-11-13T15:13:08.032259Z
Severity
  • 9.9 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation via async macro and IconThemeSheet from the user profile
Details

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 6.2-milestone-1, one can execute any wiki content with the right of IconThemeSheet author by creating an icon theme with certain content. This can be done by creating a new page or even through the user profile for users not having edit right. The issue has been patched in XWiki 14.9, 14.4.6, and 13.10.10. An available workaround is to fix the bug in the page IconThemesCode.IconThemeSheet by applying a modification from commit 48caf7491595238af2b531026a614221d5d61f38.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-116"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons
Events

Git / github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

xwiki-application-calendar-1.*

xwiki-application-calendar-1.0

xwiki-platform-7.*

xwiki-platform-7.3-milestone-2
xwiki-platform-7.4-milestone-1
xwiki-platform-7.4-milestone-2

xwiki-platform-8.*

xwiki-platform-8.0-milestone-1
xwiki-platform-8.0-milestone-2
xwiki-platform-8.1-milestone-1
xwiki-platform-8.1-milestone-2
xwiki-platform-8.2-milestone-1
xwiki-platform-8.2-milestone-2
xwiki-platform-8.3-milestone-1

xwiki-platform-9.*

xwiki-platform-9.9-rc-2

xwiki-plugin-tag-1.*

xwiki-plugin-tag-1.1

Database specific

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