XWiki Remote Code Execution

published 2007-09-14 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-h5jm-jjgx-q2wf , EUVD-2022-4071

cvss: 6.5; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.5%; EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits: 0; none known

PreviewAction in XWiki 0.9.543 through 0.9.1252 does not set the Author field to the identity of the user who last modified a document, which allows remote authenticated users without programming rights to execute arbitrary code by selecting a document whose author has programming rights, modifying this document to contain a script, and previewing without saving the document.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore 1.0B1

github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform@c44172a commit

Exploit prediction

1.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	6.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore	>=0.9.543, <1.0B1	1.0B1

Classification

Weakness

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2006-7223
GitHub Advisory GHSA-h5jm-jjgx-q2wf
NVD CVE-2006-7223

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Summary