CVE-2023-29511: XWiki

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. 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. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki versions 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Affected products

• XWiki XWiki: from 1.7, before 13.10.11 (fixed in 13.10.11); after 14.0, before 14.4.8 (fixed in 14.4.8); from 14.5, before 14.10.1 (fixed in 14.10.1); version 14.0 only

Published 2023-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.