CVE-2025-49582
June 13, 2025
XWiki is a generic wiki platform. When editing content that contains "dangerous" macros like malicious script macros that were authored by a user with fewer rights, XWiki warns about the execution of these macros since XWiki 15.9RC1. These required rights analyzers that trigger these warnings are incomplete, allowing an attacker to hide malicious content. For most macros, the existing analyzers don't consider non-lowercase parameters. Further, most macro parameters that can contain XWiki syntax like titles of information boxes weren't analyzed at all. Similarly, the "source" parameters of the content and context macro weren't anylzed even though they could contain arbitrary XWiki syntax. In the worst case, this could allow a malicious to add malicious script macros including Groovy or Python macros to a page that are then executed after another user with programming righs edits the page, thus allowing remote code execution. The required rights analyzers have been made more robust and extended to cover those cases in XWiki 16.4.7, 16.10.3 and 17.0.0.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=xwiki-platform-16.5.0 <xwiki-platform-16.10.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version xwiki-platform-16.10.3https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=xwiki-platform-15.9 <xwiki-platform-16.4.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version xwiki-platform-16.4.7org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context (NEXUS):
Affected version(s) >=16.5.0 <16.10.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 16.10.3org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache (NEXUS):
Affected version(s) >=16.5.0 <16.10.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 16.10.3org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki (NEXUS):
Affected version(s) >=15.9 <16.4.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 16.4.7org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache (NEXUS):
Affected version(s) >=15.9 <16.4.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 16.4.7org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context (NEXUS):
Affected version(s) >=15.9 <16.4.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 16.4.7org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki (NEXUS):
Affected version(s) >=16.5.0 <16.10.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 16.10.3Related Resources (11)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations
EPSS
Base Score:
0.61