CVE-2023-29208 Data leak through deleted documents

What is CVE-2023-29208?

CVE-2023-29208 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 15 Apr 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Rights added to a document are not taken into account for viewing it once it's deleted. Note that this vulnerability only impact deleted documents that where containing view rights: the view rights provided on a space of a deleted document are properly checked. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10 by checking the rights of current user: only admin and deleter of the document are allowed to view it.

Weakness: CWE-668

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-29208?

6 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-2023-29208?

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

Is CVE-2023-29208 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-29208 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-4f8g-fq6x-jqrr.