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CVE-2025-49582VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Org.xwiki.platform:xwiki platform rendering xwiki: XWiki's required right warnings for macros are incomplete

Affects org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwikiSource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-49582· High 8.6

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.6 High : upgrade to 16.4.7 soon.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 15:49 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.6High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 16.4.7, 16.10.3, 17.0.0
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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 Jun 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context to 16.4.7; org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context to 16.10.3; org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default and org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context to 17.0.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwikiAffected
  • >=15.9-rc-1 <16.4.7
Fixed in
  • 16.4.7
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwikiAffected
  • >=16.5.0-rc-1 <16.10.3
Fixed in
  • 16.10.3
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-xwikiAffected
  • >=17.0.0-rc-1 <17.0.0
Fixed in
  • 17.0.0
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cacheAffected
  • >=15.9-rc-1 <16.4.7
Fixed in
  • 16.4.7
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cacheAffected
  • >=16.5.0-rc-1 <16.10.3
Fixed in
  • 16.10.3
Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cacheAffected
  • >=17.0.0-rc-1 <17.0.0
Fixed in
  • 17.0.0

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Description

### Impact 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. ### Patches 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. ### Workarounds We're not aware of any workarounds except for being careful when editing content authored by untrusted users. ### References * https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22763 * https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22759 * https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22758 * https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22799 * https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/abdcefc0db27035b67329add836fd683e0cf92b8 * https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/cc74dc802efe0e2d3fa2ba3355dbadc51c5fd8c7 * https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/0a705e8e253cb871b804e25c53b2bde879c886bd * https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/3d451e957fe2b14459e9ac64172b4a0e4c46971c

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