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SCA: security update for org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml (GHSA-m3jr-cvhj-f35j)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416689

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The "restricted"
 mode of the HTML cleaner in XWiki, introduced in version 4.2-milestone-1, only escaped `<script>` and
 `<style>`-tags but neither attributes that can be used to inject scripts nor other dangerous HTML tags
 like `<iframe>`. As a consequence, any code relying on this "restricted" mode for security is vulnerable
 to JavaScript injection ("cross-site scripting"/XSS). When a privileged user with programming rights
 visits such a comment in XWiki, the malicious JavaScript code is executed in the context of the user
 session. This allows server-side code execution with programming rights, impacting the confidentiality,
 integrity and availability of the XWiki instance. This problem has been patched in XWiki 14.6 RC1 with the
 introduction of a filter with allowed HTML elements and attributes that is enabled in restricted mode.
 There are no known workarounds apart from upgrading to a version including the fix. (CVE-2023-29201)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m3jr-cvhj-f35j

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 416689

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29201

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29201

cwe: CWE-79