CVE-2023-29209
CRITICALDescription
XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents including the legacy notification activity macro 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 macro parameters of the legacy notification activity macro. This macro is installed by default in XWiki. The vulnerability can be exploited via every wiki page that is editable including the user's profile, but also with just view rights using the HTMLConverter that is part of the CKEditor integration which is bundled with XWiki. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7 and 14.10.
How to fix
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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 64% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-24893 | Critical | 9.8 | 100% | KEV | Fix |
| CVE-2026-33017 | Critical | 9.8 | 100% | KEV | Fix |
| CVE-2024-36401 | Critical | 9.8 | 100% | KEV | Fix |
| CVE-2024-21650 | Critical | 10.0 | 93% | - | - |
| CVE-2023-37462 | Critical | 9.9 | 91% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2024-7954 | Critical | 9.8 | 90% | - | Fix |
Common questions
How do I fix CVE-2023-29209?
Upgrade xwiki to 14.10 or later.
Is CVE-2023-29209 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2023-29209 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 1.1% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 64% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2023-29209?
CVE-2023-29209 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.9, rated critical. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2023-29209 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for xwiki (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.