Page render failure due to broken translations in xwiki-platform
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object. This will lead to a broken page. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no workarounds other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-29520
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- 5 Nov 2026, 00:51 UTC · Revision 1
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Page render failure due to broken translations in xwiki-platform
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 18 Apr 2023, 23:33 UTC
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object. This will lead to a broken page. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no workarounds other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.
osv:CVE-2023-29520
Complete source record
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