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High
CVE-2025-49580
XWiki allows privilege escalation through link refactoring
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
>= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.1.0-rc-1, >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.10.4, >= 8.2, < 16.4.7, >= 7.4.5, < 8.0-milestone-1
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 13th, 2025
Last Modified:
June 13th, 2025
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026