CVE-2025-49582

XWiki's required right warnings for macros are incomplete

HIGH
8
CVSS Score
Published: June 13, 2025 at 04:41 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:31 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXwiki

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Severity
HIGH8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 16.10.3v < 16.4.7v < 17.0.015.9 ≤ v < 16.4.716.5.0 ≤ v < 16.10.317.0.0 rc1
Affected range stops below 16.10.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 16.4.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 17.0.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
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Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-357

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