Cybersecurity Chaos: CVE-2023-48292 Makes XWiki Quake!

Beware of CVE-2023-48292! It’s the cyber equivalent of finding out your OpenJDK had an evil twin. This remote code execution exploit can wreak havoc on XWiki Standard 14.10. Confirm the vulnerability, but remember—use your powers for good, not evil!

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Oh XWiki, how the mighty have fallen! It seems like someone left the backdoor open again, and this time it’s a full-blown house party with CVE-2023-48292. Who knew that running shell commands through a URL could be so accessible? It’s like the developers wanted to bring a touch of the terminal to the world wide web. Also, can we talk about how “testtesttest1234” is the new “password123”? Come on, folks, at least get creative with your test strings!

Key Points:

  • CVE-2023-48292 is a remote code execution vulnerability in XWiki Standard 14.10.
  • The exploit was authored by Mehran Seifalinia and tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with OpenJDK 11.
  • The vulnerability allows unauthorized execution of shell commands via HTTP requests.
  • Both GET and POST methods can be used to exploit this vulnerability.
  • A test payload of “echo ‘testtesttest1234′” is used to verify vulnerability.

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