Medium

XWiki Platform vulnerable to page render failure due to broken translations

  • Disclosed: 20.04.2023
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:21

Impact

It's possible to break many translations coming from wiki pages by creating a corrupted document containing a translation object.

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11.

Workarounds

There is no other workaround other than fixing any way to create a document that fail to load.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20460

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-localization-source-wiki >= 4.3-milestone-2, < 13.10.11, >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.8, >= 14.5, < 14.10.1 13.10.11, 14.4.8, 14.10.1

References

CVSS score 4.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-248, CWE-755
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-localization-source-wiki
Disclosed
20.04.2023
Updated
11.10.2026 11:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-9jq5-xwqw-q8j3 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-localization-source-wiki

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
2
First → latest
04.2023 04.2024
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2023: 1
  2. 2024: 1
  3. 2025: 0
  4. 2026: 0
  1. Critical · 9.9 CVE-2024-31983 >= 4.3-milestone-2, < 14.10.20, >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.4, >= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.10-rc-1 14.10.20, 15.5.4, 15.10-rc-1
  2. XWiki Platform vulnerable to page render failure due to broken translations this entry
    Medium · 4.3 CVE-2023-29520 >= 4.3-milestone-2, < 13.10.11, >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.8, >= 14.5, < 14.10.1 13.10.11, 14.4.8, 14.10.1

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