CVE-2025-48063

May 21, 2025, 8:24 p.m.

4.8
Medium

Description

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In XWiki 16.10.0, required rights were introduced as a way to limit which rights a document can have. Part of the security model of required rights is that a user who doesn't have a right also cannot define that right as required right. That way, users who are editing documents on which required rights are enforced can be sure that they're not giving a right to a script or object that it didn't have before. A bug in the implementation of the enforcement of this rule means that in fact, it was possible for any user with edit right on a document to set programming right as required right. If then a user with programming right edited that document, the content of that document would gain programming right, allowing remote code execution. This thereby defeats most of the security benefits of required rights. As XWiki still performs the required rights analysis when a user edits a page even when required rights are enforced, the user with programming right would still be warned about the dangerous content unless the attacker managed to bypass this check. Note also that none of the affected versions include a UI for enabling the enforcing of required rights so it seems unlikely that anybody relied on them for security in the affected versions. As this vulnerability provides no additional attack surface unless all documents in the wiki enforce required rights, we consider the impact of this attack to be low even though gaining programming right could have a high impact. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 16.10.4 and 17.1.0RC1. No known workarounds are available except for upgrading.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Xwiki
  • Xwiki
  • 16.10.0, 16.10.4, 17.1.0RC1

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-285
Improper Authorization
The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a xwiki xwiki 16.10.0 / / / / / / /
a xwiki xwiki 16.10.4 / / / / / / /
a xwiki xwiki 17.1.0RC1 / / / / / / /

References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/2557813aef3b863988d6cca58de996e207086898
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rhfv-688c-p6hp
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22859
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22859

Tags

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-285
2025-05-21
CVE-2025-48063

CVSS Score

4.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • User Interaction: ACTIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: LOW
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: May 21, 2025, 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified: May 21, 2025, 8:24 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

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