CVE-2025-32974

CRITICAL

XWiki 15.9-15.10.7 and 16.0.0-16.1.0 - Privilege Escalation via TextArea Default Content Type

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 15.9-rc-1 to before 15.10.8 and from 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.2.0, the required rights analysis doesn't consider TextAreas with default content type. 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. This issue has been patched in versions 15.10.8 and 16.2.0.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 20.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269 CWE-116
Status published
Products (2)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default 15.9-rc-1 - 15.10.8Maven
xwiki/xwiki 15.9 - 15.10.8
Published Apr 30, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026