CVE-2025-49582

XWiki's required right warnings for macros are incomplete

Published Jun 13, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 8.6 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-18293 XWiki's required right warnings for macros are incomplete
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-c32m-27pj-4xcj XWiki's required right warnings for macros are incomplete
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Xwiki xwiki
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:17.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Xwiki xwiki
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00298}

epss

{'score': 0.00337}

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Weaknesses CWE-693
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Weaknesses CWE-357
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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.
Title XWiki's required right warnings for macros are incomplete
Weaknesses CWE-693
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.6, '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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jun 13, 2025, 5:34 PM
Reserved
Jun 6, 2025, 3:44 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jun 13, 2025, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 9:31 AM