CVE-2024-31996criticalCWE-95

CVE-2024-31996: critical vulnerability in xwiki-commons

XWiki Commons missing escaping of `{` in Velocity escapetool allows remote code execution

Published · Updated

Follow this CVE+ Monitor xwiki-commons+ Monitor org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-velocity

E-mail alert when it lands in KEV, gets a public PoC or its score goes up.

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 10epss 2.1%
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 3.0.1 and prior to versions 4.10.19, 15.5.4, and 15.10-rc-1, the HTML escaping of escaping tool that is used in XWiki doesn't escape `{`, which, when used in certain places, allows XWiki syntax injection and thereby remote code execution. The vulnerability has been fixed in XWiki 14.10.19, 15.5.5, and 15.9 RC1. Apart from upgrading, there is no generic workaround. However, replacing `$escapetool.html` by `$escapetool.xml` in XWiki documents fixes the vulnerability. In a standard XWiki installation, the maintainers are only aware of the document `Panels.PanelLayoutUpdate` that exposes this vulnerability, patching this document is thus a workaround. Any extension could expose this vulnerability and might thus require patching, too.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
xwiki · xwiki-commons
Related CVEs — xwiki-commons

In the same product, most dangerous first.

CVE-2026-23734CRITICALXWiki Platform: Path traversal via resources parameter in ssx and jsx endpoints when using leading slashEPSS 18.5%CVE-2022-24897HIGHArbitrary filesystem write access from VelocityEPSS 1.8%CVE-2022-24898MEDIUMArbitrary file access through XML parsing in org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xmlEPSS 1.5%CVE-2023-29528CRITICALCross-site Scripting in org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xmlEPSS 1.3%CVE-2023-26055CRITICALXWiki Commons may allow privilege escalation to programming rights via user's first nameEPSS 1.2%CVE-2023-29201CRITICALorg.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-xml Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilityEPSS 1.2%