CVE-2023-38509 XWiki Platform's obfuscated email addresses should not be sorted

What is CVE-2023-38509?

CVE-2023-38509 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 27 Jul 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. In org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-livetable-ui starting with version 3.5-milestone-1 and prior to versions 14.10.9 and 15.3-rc-1, the mail obfuscation configuration was not fully taken into account and is was still possible by obfuscated emails. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and XWiki 15.3-rc-1. A workaround is to modify the page `XWiki.LiveTableResultsMacros` following the patch.

Weakness: CWE-402

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38509?

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

Products include Xwiki Xwiki.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38509?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-livetable-ui to a fixed version for your release line: 15.3-rc-1 or 14.10.9.

Is CVE-2023-38509 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38509 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-g9w4-prf3-m25g.