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SCA: security update for org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml (GHSA-x37v-36wv-6v6h)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420241

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 and massively improved in version
 14.6-rc-1, allowed the injection of arbitrary HTML code and thus cross-site scripting via invalid HTML
 comments. 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 14.10, HTML comments are
 now removed in restricted mode and a check has been introduced that ensures that comments don't start with
 `>`. There are no known workarounds apart from upgrading to a version including the fix. (CVE-2023-29528)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x37v-36wv-6v6h

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 420241

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.66

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-2023-29528

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: 4/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29528

cwe: CWE-79