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title: "CVE-2024-38369: XWiki programming rights may be inherited by inclusion"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2024-38369/
description: "CVE-2024-38369 (org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-include (Maven)): XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2024-06-24
date_modified: 2024-08-02
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2024-38369"
kev: false
cvss: 10
epss: 0.00342
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
---

# CVE-2024-38369: XWiki programming rights may be inherited by inclusion

**Signal:** Critical, preconditions apply. Severe if exploited, but exploitation needs conditions that may not apply to you. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- No confirmed exploitation. It is not in CISA’s KEV catalog and CISA’s SSVC assessment records no known exploitation. That can change quickly after a public write-up; re-check if you are affected.
- EPSS 0.3% , percentile 26: FIRST’s model estimates a 0.3% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (low). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Needs an account (low (any account)). Exposure depends on who can log in.
- Only applies if your dependency tree includes org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-include (Maven) < 15.0-rc-1, fixed in 15.0-rc-1 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The content of a document included using {{include reference="targetdocument"/}} is executed with the right of the includer and not with the right of its author. This means that any user able to modify the target document can impersonate the author of the content which used the include macro. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.0 RC1 by making the default behavior safe.

## Affected packages

- Maven `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-include` < 15.0-rc-1 → fixed: 15.0-rc-1

## Affected products (CVE record)

- xwiki xwiki-platform: >= 1.5-milestone-2, < 15.0-rc-1

## Severity

- GitHub_M CVSS 3.1: 10 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`
- GitHub CVSS 3.1: 9.9 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none , automatable no , technical impact total .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 0.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 26.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-qcj3-wpgm-qpxh](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcj3-wpgm-qpxh)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2024-38369](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38369)
- [NVD entry CVE-2024-38369](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38369)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-qcj3-wpgm-qpxh)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/0a4f9b026ba9931516b4e9b3019da8da838c7ac6)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/b48116a3ebe9ce928c401b5d068d4db7e7239575)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/c1fb14402ce2ee569c5a8e3f1f8e64ae45dfbfb0)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/d1a84a3eea38305ff8e10ba411910c0675ac157c)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f627abe2dc39b07ff75fe68398cc8a1bbc743ef7)
- [jira.xwiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20471)
- [jira.xwiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-5027)

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