CVE-2023-6280: 52north WPS

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An XXE (XML External Entity) vulnerability has been detected in 52North WPS affecting versions prior to 4.0.0-beta.11. This vulnerability allows the use of external entities in its WebProcessingService servlet for an attacker to retrieve files by making HTTP requests to the internal network.

Affected products

• 52north WPS: before 4.0.0 (fixed in 4.0.0); version 4.0.0 only

Published 2023-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.