XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. When an admin disables a user account, the user's profile is executed with the admin's rights. This allows a user to place malicious code in the user profile before getting an admin to disable the user account. To reproduce, as a user without script nor programming rights, edit the about section of your user profile and add `{{groovy}}services.logging.getLogger("attacker").error("Hello from Groovy!"){{/groovy}}`.
As an admin, go to the user profile and click the "Disable this account" button. Then, reload the page. If the logs show `attacker - Hello from Groovy!` then the instance is vulnerable. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.6 and 16.0.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

### Workarounds
We're not aware of any workaround except upgrading.

### References
* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611
* https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f89c8f47fad6e5cc7e68c69a7e0acde07f5eed5a
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-j584-j2vj-3f93 XWiki Platform allows remote code execution from user account
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Xwiki
Xwiki xwiki
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:13.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:13.5:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:16.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Xwiki
Xwiki xwiki

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-13T13:51:01.754Z

Reserved: 2024-06-10T19:54:41.362Z

Link: CVE-2024-37899

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:04:23.403Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-20T23:15:52.460

Modified: 2025-02-05T16:01:02.763

Link: CVE-2024-37899

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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