CVE-2023-48241 XWiki exposed whole content of all documents of all wikis to anybody with view right on Solr suggest service

What is CVE-2023-48241?

CVE-2023-48241 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 20 Nov 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 6.3-milestone-2 and prior to versions 14.10.15, 15.5.1, and 15.6RC1, the Solr-based search suggestion provider that also duplicates as generic JavaScript API for search results in XWiki exposes the content of all documents of all wikis to anybody who has access to it, by default it is public. This exposes all information stored in the wiki (but not some protected information like password hashes). While there is a right check normally, the right check can be circumvented by explicitly requesting fields from Solr that don't include the data for the right check. This has been fixed in XWiki 15.6RC1, 15.5.1 and 14.10.15 by not listing documents whose rights cannot be checked. No known workarounds are available.

Weakness: CWE-285

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-48241?

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

Products include Xwiki Xwiki.

How do I fix CVE-2023-48241?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-solr-query to a fixed version for your release line: 15.5.1 or 14.10.15.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2023-48241 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-48241 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template.

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• 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-7fqr-97j7-jgf4.