# XWiki Rendering's footnote macro vulnerable to privilege escalation via the footnote macro Advisory record · `GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5` - **Identifiers:** `GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5` · `CVE-2023-37912` - **State:** Confirmed - **Severity:** CVSS 10.0 Critical - **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+ - **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-270](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/270.html) - **Tags:** [Privilege escalation](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/privilege-escalation.md) - **Published:** 25 Oct 2023 - **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026 - **Reviewed by a person:** No Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 25 Oct 2023, 21:07 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. ## Critical Critical, because: - CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more. How we decide what’s critical: ## Affected packages - `org.xwiki.rendering:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes` (Maven): affected `<14.10.6 || >=15.0-rc-1, <15.1-rc-1`; fixed in `14.10.6`, `15.1-rc-1` - `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes` (Maven): affected `<14.10.6`; fixed in `14.10.6` ## Machine-written summary Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person. > GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5 affects the Maven package org.xwiki.rendering:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes before 14.10.6 and from 15.0-rc-1 before 15.1-rc-1, and the Maven package org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes before 14.10.6. A user with a simple user account can use the footnote macro, combined with the include macro, to run content with programming rights, which allows remote code execution. Upgrade to 14.10.6 or 15.1-rc-1 for the rendering macro, or to 14.10.6 for the platform macro. The source lists no workaround other than upgrading. Written 2 Nov 2026. ## Not analysed yet We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check. ## Severity and exploitation - 10.0 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (GitHub_M) - **CISA KEV:** Not listed. - **EPSS:** 0.015, the 73rd percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. ## Timeline - 31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC: First seen by agentprime - 31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5) ## Sources - [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5) - [OSV: GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5) - - - - - Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code. ## Check whether this affects you A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet. - With the agentprime MCP server (), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: - In a browser: reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it. - Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, - As JSON: , or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages () --- The web page: . Everything for agents: .