CVE-2023-35166 Privilege escalation (PR) from account through TipsPanel

What is CVE-2023-35166?

CVE-2023-35166 is a critical vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 20 Jun 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 offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to execute any wiki content with the right of the TipsPanel author by creating a tip UI extension. This has been patched in XWiki 15.1-rc-1 and 14.10.5.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-35166?

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

Products include Xwiki Xwiki.

How do I fix CVE-2023-35166?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-help-ui to a fixed version for your release line: 15.1-rc-1 or 14.10.5.

Is CVE-2023-35166 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-35166 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-h7cw-44vp-jq7h.