CVE-2023-26475 XWiki Platform vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in Annotations

What is CVE-2023-26475?

CVE-2023-26475 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 2 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 2.3-milestone-1, the annotation displayer does not execute the content in a restricted context. This allows executing anything with the right of the author of any document by annotating the document. This has been patched in XWiki 13.10.11, 14.4.7 and 14.10. There is no easy workaround except to upgrade.

Weakness: CWE-270, CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-26475?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-annotation-ui. It affects 1 product.

Products include Xwiki Xwiki.

How do I fix CVE-2023-26475?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-annotation-ui to a fixed version for your release line: 14.4.7, 14.10 or 13.10.11.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2023-26475 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-26475 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-h6f5-8jj5-cxhr.