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title: "CVE-2025-32974: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default required rights analysis doesn't consider TextAreas with default content type"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-32974/
description: "CVE-2025-32974 (org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default (Maven)): XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from…"
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-2025-32974"
kev: false
cvss: 9.1
epss: 0.00354
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# CVE-2025-32974: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default required rights analysis doesn't consider TextAreas with default content type

**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 28: FIRST’s model estimates a 0.4% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 28% 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-security-requiredrights-default (Maven) >= 15.9-rc-1, < 15.10.8, fixed in 15.10.8 ; org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default (Maven) >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.2.0, fixed in 16.2.0 . 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 15.10.8 and from 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.2.0, the required rights analysis doesn't consider TextAreas with default content type. When editing a page, XWiki warns since version 15.9 when there is content on the page like a script macro that would gain more rights due to the editing. This analysis doesn't consider certain kinds of properties, allowing a user to put malicious scripts in there that will be executed after a user with script, admin, or programming rights edited the page. Such a malicious script could impact the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. This issue has been patched in versions 15.10.8 and 16.2.0.

## Affected packages

- Maven `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default` >= 15.9-rc-1, < 15.10.8 → fixed: 15.10.8
- Maven `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default` >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.2.0 → fixed: 16.2.0

## Affected products (CVE record)

- xwiki xwiki-platform: >= 15.9-rc-1, < 15.10.8, >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.2.0

## 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): 0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 28.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-mvgm-3rw2-7j4r](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mvgm-3rw2-7j4r)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2025-32974](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32974)
- [NVD entry CVE-2025-32974](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32974)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-mvgm-3rw2-7j4r)
- [github.com](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/153dbfa2ef1a7a0a644fe3f889684c6a8738c5fc)
- [jira.xwiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22002)

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Source page: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-32974/ · Security Digest: https://erroneo.us/security/ · More: https://erroneo.us/llms.txt