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CRITICAL9.9

GHSA-rfh6-mg6h-h668

xwiki-platform-administration-ui vulnerable to privilege escalation

Quick fix

GHSA-rfh6-mg6h-h668 — org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

# pom.xml: bump <version>13.10.11</version> for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui

Details

### Impact Any user with edit rights on a page (e.g., it's own user page), 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 section ids in `XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet`. This page is installed by default.

Reproduction steps are described in https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20261

### Patches The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

### Workarounds The issue can be fixed by applying this [patch](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f1e310826a19acdcdecdecdcfe171d21f24d6ede) on `XWiki.AdminFieldsDisplaySheet`.

### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

* Open an issue in [Jira XWiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/) * Email us at [Security Mailing List](mailto:security@xwiki.org)

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Affected packages

Maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui
Introduced in: 1.5M2Fixed in: 13.10.11
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>13.10.11</version> for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui
Maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui
Introduced in: 14.0-rc-1Fixed in: 14.4.8
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>14.4.8</version> for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui
Maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui
Introduced in: 14.5Fixed in: 14.10.1
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>14.10.1</version> for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui

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