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org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki Eval Injection vulnerability

Type: advisorySources: OSV

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter. The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.

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CVEs
CVE-2023-29211
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8 Nov 2026, 01:35 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki Eval Injection vulnerability

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Apr 2023, 06:34 UTC

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter. The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.

osv:CVE-2023-29211
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights `WikiManager.DeleteWiki` can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation. The root cause is improper escaping of the `wikiId` url parameter. The problem has been patched on XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7, and 14.10.",
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/29xxx/CVE-2023-29211.json",
        "https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v9-fc49-4qg4",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29211",
        "https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ba4c76265b0b8a5e2218be400d18f08393fe1428#diff-64f39f5f2cc8c6560a44e21a5cfd509ef00e8a2157cd9847c9940a2e08ea43d1R63-R64"
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}