org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-ui Eval Injection vulnerability

Impact

It's possible to inject arbitrary wiki syntax including Groovy, Python and Velocity script macros via the newThemeName request parameter (URL parameter), in combination with additional parameters form_token=1&action=create.

For instance: http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki/bin/view/FlamingoThemesCode/WebHomeSheet?newThemeName=foo%22%2F%7D%7D%7B%7Basync%20async%3D%22true%22%20cached%3D%22false%22%20context%3D%22doc.reference%22%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln(%22hello%20from%20groovy!%22)%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D&form_token=1&action=create will execute the following groovy code: println("hello from groovy!") on the server.

Patches

This has been patched in the supported versions 13.10.10, 14.9-rc-1, and 14.4.6.

Workarounds

It is possible to edit FlamingoThemesCode.WebHomeSheet and manually perform the changes from the patch fixing the issue.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ea2e615f50a918802fd60b09ec87aa04bc6ea8e2#diff-e2153fa59f9d92ef67b0afbf27984bd17170921a3b558fac227160003d0dfd2aR283-R284
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19757

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