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Advisory record · GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5

XWiki Rendering's footnote macro vulnerable to privilege escalation via the footnote macro

CVSS 10.0 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.015 · 73rd percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

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.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.xwiki.rendering:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotesMaven<14.10.6 || >=15.0-rc-1, <15.1-rc-114.10.6, 15.1-rc-1
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotesMaven<14.10.614.10.6
Identifiers
GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5 · CVE-2023-37912
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-270
Tags
Published
25 Oct 2023
Updated
10 Sept 2026

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

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
10.0 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 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

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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