CVE-2025-49587

XWiki does not require right warnings for notification displayer objects

HIGH
8
CVSS Score
Published: June 13, 2025 at 05:51 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 0.4%
SSVC
PoC

Description

XWiki is an open-source wiki software platform. When a user without script right creates a document with an XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationDisplayerClass object, and later an admin edits and saves that document, the possibly malicious content of that object is output as raw HTML, allowing XSS attacks. While the notification displayer executes Velocity, the existing generic analyzer already warns admins before editing Velocity code. Note that warnings before editing documents with dangerous properties have only been introduced in XWiki 15.9, before that version, this was a known issue and the advice was simply to be careful. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10.16, 16.4.7, and 16.10.2 by adding a required rights analyzer that warns the admin before editing about the possibly malicious code.

Affected

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

v < 15.10.16v < 16.10.2v < 16.4.715.9 ≤ v < 15.10.1616.0.0 ≤ v < 16.4.716.5.0 ≤ v < 16.10.2
Affected range stops below 15.10.16, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 16.10.2, 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

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

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

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-357

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