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Fencer Vulns
high 8.0

CVE-2024-21648 json

XWiki has no right protection on rollback action

published 2024-01-08 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-xh35-w7wg-95v3 , EUVD-2024-0458

cvss
8.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The rollback action is missing a right protection, a user can rollback to a previous version of the page to gain rights they don't have anymore. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10.17, 15.5.3 and 15.8-rc-1 by ensuring that the rights are checked before performing the rollback.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore 14.10.17
  • maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform 15.5.3, 15.8-rc-1
  • xwiki xwiki 14.10.17, 15.5.3, 15.8

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
>=1.0, <14.10.17
14.10.17
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform
>=15.0-rc-1, <15.5.3
>=15.6-rc-1, <15.8-rc-1
15.5.3
15.8-rc-1

Affected products

  • xwiki xwiki-platform

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-274 Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

References

Sources

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