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CVE-2023-29520 (GCVE-0-2023-29520)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-18 23:33 – Updated: 2025-02-05 18:44
VLAI
Title
Page render failure due to broken translations in xwiki-platform
Summary
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object. This will lead to a broken page. The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no workarounds other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-05 18:44 UTC
CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
xwiki xwiki-platform Affected: < 13.10.11
Affected: >= 14.0.0, < 14.4.8
Affected: >= 14.5.0, < 14.10.1
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