CVE-2025-49581

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. Any user with edit right on a page (could be the user's profile) can execute code (Groovy, Python, Velocity) with programming right by defining a wiki macro. This allows full access to the whole XWiki installation. The main problem is that if a wiki macro parameter allows wiki syntax, its default value is executed with the rights of the author of the document where it is used. This can be exploited by overriding a macro like the children macro that is used in a page that has programming right like the page XWiki.ChildrenMacro and thus allows arbitrary script macros. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 16.4.7, 16.10.3 and 17.0.0 by executing wiki parameters with the rights of the wiki macro's author when the parameter's value is the default value.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/c99d501ed41cbee6a3c02ff927714531570789de
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-9875-cw22-f7cx
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22760

Configurations

No configuration.

History

13 Jun 2025, 16:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-06-13 16:15

Updated : 2025-06-13 16:15

NVD link : CVE-2025-49581

Mitre link : CVE-2025-49581

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-49581

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-94

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CWE-250

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

CWE-270

Privilege Context Switching Error

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