CVE-2025-32973
XWiki Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description
XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 15.9-rc-1 to before 15.10.12, from 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.4.3, and from 16.5.0-rc-1 to before 16.8.0-rc-1, when a user with programming rights edits a document in XWiki that was last edited by a user without programming rights and contains an XWiki.ComponentClass, there is no warning that this will grant programming rights to this object. An attacker who created such a malicious object could use this to gain programming rights on the wiki. For this, the attacker needs to have edit rights on at least one page to place this object and then get an admin user to edit that document. This issue has been patched in versions 15.10.12, 16.4.3, and 16.8.0-rc-1.
INFO
Published Date :
April 30, 2025, 3:16 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 30, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
6.0
Exploitability Score :
2.3
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CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Apr. 30, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22460 -
New CVE Received by [email protected]
Apr. 30, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 15.9-rc-1 to before 15.10.12, from 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.4.3, and from 16.5.0-rc-1 to before 16.8.0-rc-1, when a user with programming rights edits a document in XWiki that was last edited by a user without programming rights and contains an XWiki.ComponentClass, there is no warning that this will grant programming rights to this object. An attacker who created such a malicious object could use this to gain programming rights on the wiki. For this, the attacker needs to have edit rights on at least one page to place this object and then get an admin user to edit that document. This issue has been patched in versions 15.10.12, 16.4.3, and 16.8.0-rc-1. Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Added CWE CWE-862 Added Reference https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1a6f1b2e050770331c9a63d12a3fd8a36d199f62 Added Reference https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-x7wv-5qg4-vmr6 Added Reference https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22460
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