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UK Cyber Defence
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CVE-2024-43401

A user without script/programming right can trick a user with elevated rights to edit a content with a malicious payload using a WYSIWYG editor.

HIGH 8.0EPSS 0.68%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.68%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A user without script/programming right can trick a user with elevated rights to edit a content with a malicious payload using a WYSIWYG editor. The user with elevated rights is not warned beforehand that they are going to edit possibly dangerous content. The payload is executed at edit time. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10RC1.

CVSS 3.1
8.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.68% probability · 50th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-269, CWE-862
Affected
xwiki/xwiki
Source
security-advisories@github.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.