CVE-2025-49580 (GCVE-0-2025-49580)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-13 15:45 – Updated: 2025-06-13 18:09
VLAI?
Title
XWiki allows privilege escalation through link refactoring
Summary
XWiki is a generic wiki platform. From 8.2 and 7.4.5 until 17.1.0-rc-1, 16.10.4, and 16.4.7, pages can gain script or programming rights when they contain a link and the target of the link is renamed or moved. This might lead to execution of scripts contained in xobjects that should have never been executed. This vulnerability is fixed in 17.1.0-rc-1, 16.10.4, and 16.4.7.
Severity ?
8.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xwiki xwiki-platform Affected: >= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.1.0-rc-1
Affected: >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.10.4
Affected: >= 8.2, < 16.4.7
Affected: >= 7.4.5, < 8.0-milestone-1
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