Critical
XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation via properties with wiki syntax that are executed with wrong author
Type: advisorySources: OSV
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 13.10, it's possible to use the right of an existing document content author to execute a text area property. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10, 14.4.7, and 13.10.11. There are no known workarounds.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-26474
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 5 Nov 2026, 02:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation via properties with wiki syntax that are executed with wrong author
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 2 Mar 2023, 18:12 UTC
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 13.10, it's possible to use the right of an existing document content author to execute a text area property. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10, 14.4.7, and 13.10.11. There are no known workarounds.
osv:CVE-2023-26474
Complete source record
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"title": "XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation via properties with wiki syntax that are executed with wrong author",
"summary": "XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 13.10, it's possible to use the right of an existing document content author to execute a text area property. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10, 14.4.7, and 13.10.11. There are no known workarounds.",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.540864383Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20373",
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"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-3738-p9x3-mv9r",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26474"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 509224,
"published_at": "2023-03-02T18:12:16.209+00:00"
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