Impact Any logged in user can add dangerous content in their first name field and see it executed with programming rights. Leading to rights escalation.
Patches The vulnerability has been fixed on XWiki 14.4.8, 14.10.6, and 15.1.
Workarounds The vulnerability can be fixed by applying this patch.
On versions before 13.4-rc-1, the fix needs to be applied on XWiki.Like.Code.LiveTableResultPage.
References - The reported issue https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20611, fixed by https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19900 - The patch https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/6ce2d04a5779e07f6d3ed3f37d4761049b4fc3ac#diff-ef7f8b911bb8e584fda22aac5876a329add35ca0d1d32e0fdb62a439b78cfa49 For more information
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