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GHSA-v662-xpcc-9xf6

Published Mar 23, 2021·Last modified Mar 13, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

The {{wikimacrocontent}} executes the content with the rights of the wiki macro author instead of the caller of that wiki macro. This makes possible to inject scripts through it and they will be executed with the rights of the wiki macro (very often a user which has Programming rights).

Fortunately, no such macro exists by default in XWiki Standard but one could have been created or installed with an extension.

Patches

It has been patched in versions XWiki 12.6.3, 11.10.11 and 12.8-rc-1.

Workarounds

There is no easy workaround other than disabling the affected macros. Inserting content in a safe way or knowing what is the user who called the wiki macro is not easy.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-17759

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Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
0.46%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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