Description
XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Starting in version 3.1-milestone-1, any user can edit their own profile and inject code, which is going to be executed with programming right. The same vulnerability can also be exploited in all other places where short text properties are displayed, e.g., in apps created using Apps Within Minutes that use a short text field. The problem has been patched on versions 13.10.9, 14.4.4, 14.7RC1.
Remediation
References
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19793
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19794
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/security/advisories/GHSA-8cw6-4r32-6r3h
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2498
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