CVE-2006-7223 XWiki Remote Code Execution

What is CVE-2006-7223?

CVE-2006-7223 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 14 Sep 2007. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-7223?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore. It affects 1 product.

Products include Xwiki Xwiki.

How do I fix CVE-2006-7223?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore to 1.0B1 or later.

Is CVE-2006-7223 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-7223 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Xwiki Xwiki

• CVE-2025-24893 XWiki Platform Eval Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-53836 XWiki Rendering is vulnerable to RCE attacks when processing nested macros Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-55662 XWiki allows remote code execution through the extension sheet Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-55877 XWiki allows remote code execution from account through macro descriptions and XWiki.XWikiSyntaxMacrosList Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-37901 XWiki Platform vulnerable to remote code execution from account via SearchSuggestConfigSheet Critical 10.0

All Xwiki Xwiki vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h5jm-jjgx-q2wf.