{"id":35778,"date":"2025-05-06T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:18:56","slug":"cve-2025-32973-xwiki-programming-rights-elevation-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32973-xwiki-programming-rights-elevation-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-32973: XWiki Programming Rights Elevation Vulnerability<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blog post focuses on the critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-32973 that affects XWiki, a popular platform for creating and managing wikis. This vulnerability, found in several versions of the software, can potentially allow attackers to gain programming rights on the affected wiki, leading to serious security implications such as system compromise and data leakage. The severity of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-2594-critical-vulnerability-in-user-registration-membership-wordpress-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40490\">vulnerability and its widespread potential impact on XWiki users<\/a> worldwide makes understanding and mitigating CVE-2025-32973 a priority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-32973<br \/>\nSeverity: Critical (CVSS 9.0)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Low<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3914-potential-arbitrary-file-uploads-and-system-compromise-in-aeropage-sync-for-airtable-wordpress-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40606\">System compromise<\/a>, data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1664860390\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>XWiki | 15.9-rc-1 to before 15.10.12<br \/>\nXWiki | 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.4.3<br \/>\nXWiki | 16.5.0-rc-1 to before 16.8.0-rc-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-4083-process-isolation-vulnerability-in-thunderbird-and-firefox-due-to-improper-handling-of-javascript-uris\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"41683\">vulnerability lies in the process<\/a> of editing a document in XWiki. When a user with programming rights edits a document that was last edited by a user without programming rights and contains an XWiki.ComponentClass, there is no warning issued. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8714-critical-postgresql-vulnerability-allowing-malicious-code-injection-by-superusers\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"80708\">allows an attacker to create a malicious<\/a> object which, when edited by an admin user, grants programming rights to the object. For this, the attacker requires edit rights on at least one page to place the object.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-241528282\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Consider the following conceptual example demonstrating how an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3200-unauthenticated-remote-attacker-exploiting-insecure-tls-protocols\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40779\">attacker might exploit<\/a> this vulnerability:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/XWiki\/editPage HTTP\/1.1\nHost: vulnerable-wiki.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{\n&quot;pageId&quot;: &quot;1234&quot;,\n&quot;content&quot;: &quot;&lt;XWiki.ComponentClass malicious_payload=&#039;...&#039;&gt;&quot;,\n&quot;lastEditedBy&quot;: &quot;non-admin-user&quot;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, an attacker with edit rights to a page sends a POST request to the editPage endpoint, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32969-critical-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-xwiki-platform\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40520\">injecting a malicious payload into an XWiki<\/a>.ComponentClass within the content of the page. If this page is subsequently edited by an admin user, the malicious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32432-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-craft-cms\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40515\">code is executed<\/a>, and the attacker gains programming rights on the wiki.<br \/>\nTo prevent this exploit, users are strongly advised to update to the patched versions: 15.10.12, 16.4.3, or 16.8.0-rc-1. If unable, implementing a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) may offer temporary mitigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview This blog post focuses on the critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-32973 that affects XWiki, a popular platform for creating and managing wikis. 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