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CVE-2023-37912

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-37912 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in XWiki Rendering's footnote macro, affecting versions prior to 14.10.6 and 15.1-rc-1 of org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes. This flaw, when combined with the include macro, allows a standard user to gain programming rights, leading to remote code execution and compromising the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the XWiki installation. Rated with a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, requiring only low privileges and no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 14.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki-rendering:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki-rendering:15.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.9CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.xwiki.rendering:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotesFixed in: 14.10.6
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.xwiki.rendering:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotesFixed in: 15.1-rc-1
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotesFixed in: 14.10.6

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5high

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

Oct 25, 2023

References

github.com / xwiki/xwiki-rendering/commit/5f558b8fac8b716d19999225f38cb8ed0814116e
Patch
github.com / xwiki/xwiki-rendering/security/advisories/GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5
PatchVendor Advisory
jira.xwiki.org / browse/XRENDERING-688
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory