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title: "CVE-2025-32973: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki provides no warning when granting XWiki.ComponentClass programming right"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-32973/
description: "CVE-2025-32973 (org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki (Maven)): XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 15.9-rc-1 to before…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-04-30
date_modified: 2025-04-30
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2025-32973"
kev: false
cvss: 9.1
epss: 0.00402
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# CVE-2025-32973: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki provides no warning when granting XWiki.ComponentClass programming right

**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?

- Not in CISA KEV , but CISA’s SSVC assessment records a public proof-of-concept, so attack code exists.
- EPSS 0.4% , percentile 33: FIRST’s model estimates a 0.4% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 33% 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-component-wiki (Maven) >= 15.9-rc-1, < 15.10.12, fixed in 15.10.12 ; org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki (Maven) >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.3, fixed in 16.4.3 ; org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki (Maven) >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.8.0-rc-1, fixed in 16.8.0-rc-1 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 15.9-rc-1 to before 15.10.12, from 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.4.3, and from 16.5.0-rc-1 to before 16.8.0-rc-1, when a user with programming rights edits a document in XWiki that was last edited by a user without programming rights and contains an XWiki.ComponentClass, there is no warning that this will grant programming rights to this object. An attacker who created such a malicious object could use this to gain programming rights on the wiki. For this, the attacker needs to have edit rights on at least one page to place this object and then get an admin user to edit that document. This issue has been patched in versions 15.10.12, 16.4.3, and 16.8.0-rc-1.

## Affected packages

- Maven `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki` >= 15.9-rc-1, < 15.10.12 → fixed: 15.10.12
- Maven `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki` >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.3 → fixed: 16.4.3
- Maven `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-component-wiki` >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.8.0-rc-1 → fixed: 16.8.0-rc-1

## Affected products (CVE record)

- xwiki xwiki-platform: >= 15.9-rc-1, < 15.10.12, >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.3, >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.8.0-rc-1

## Severity

- GitHub_M CVSS 3.1: 9.1 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`
- GitHub CVSS 3.1: 9.0 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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 poc , automatable no , technical impact total .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 0.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 33.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-x7wv-5qg4-vmr6](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x7wv-5qg4-vmr6)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2025-32973](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32973)
- [NVD entry CVE-2025-32973](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32973)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-x7wv-5qg4-vmr6)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1a6f1b2e050770331c9a63d12a3fd8a36d199f62)
- [jira.xwiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22460)

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