CVE-2023-29509
Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents can execute arbitrary Groovy, Python or Velocity code in XWiki leading to full access to the XWiki installation.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 76.2%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents 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 `documentTree` macro parameters in This macro is installed by default in `FlamingoThemesCode.WebHome`. This page is installed by default. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7 and 14.10.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 76.18% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-95, CWE-94
- Affected
- xwiki/xwiki
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
EPSS 76.2% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/80d5be36f700adcd56b6c8eb3ed8b973f62ec0aePatch
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-f4v8-58f6-mwj4Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20279Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/80d5be36f700adcd56b6c8eb3ed8b973f62ec0aePatch
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-f4v8-58f6-mwj4Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20279Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.