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Vulnerability · Published Jun 13, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-49582XWiki's required right warnings for macros are incomplete

High 8.6

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in xwiki-platform from xwiki. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)8.6High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache16.4.7GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache16.10.3GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache17.0.0GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context17.0.0GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context16.10.3GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context16.4.7GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki16.4.7GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki16.10.3GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki17.0.0GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default17.0.0GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default16.10.3GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default16.4.7GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
xwiki xwiki-platform >= 15.9-rc-1, < 16.4.7>= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.10.3>= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.0.0

Weakness: CWE-357 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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