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🛡️ CVE-2025-32974 — xwiki

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-116 NVD
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default required rights analysis doesn't consider TextAreas with default content type

Impact

When editing a page, XWiki warns since version 15.9 when there is content on the page like a script macro that would gain more rights due to the editing. This analysis doesn't consider certain kinds of properties, allowing a user to put malicious scripts in there that will be executed after a user with script, admin, or programming rights edited the page. Such a malicious script could impact the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation.

To reproduce, as a user without script right, create a class with a TextArea property, create page with an object of that class and a Velocity macro in its content. Then, as an admin, try editing that page. Normally, there should be a warning but in vulnerable versions of XWiki, there is no warning.

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10.8 and 16.2.0.

Workarounds

We're not aware of any workarounds apart from not editing pages that might have been edited by untrusted users as a user with script rights, e.g., by using separate user accounts for admin and non-admin tasks.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-32974 is classified as CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. Output is emitted without encoding it for the context it lands in, so data is interpreted as markup or code.

Affected software

CVE-2025-32974 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default (from 16.0.0-rc-1 up to 16.2.0)
  • xwiki (from 16.0.0 up to 16.2.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 April 2025 and last revised on 30 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-116
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-04-29
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-04-30

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default 16.0.0-rc-1 16.2.0
xwiki 16.0.0 16.2.0

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