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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2024-46978 json

Missing checks for notification filter preferences editions in XWiki Platform

published 2024-09-18 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-2862 , GHSA-r95w-889q-x2gx

cvss
6.5
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 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible for any user knowing the ID of a notification filter preference of another user, to enable/disable it or even delete it. The impact is that the target user might start loosing notifications on some pages because of this. This vulnerability is present in XWiki since 13.2-rc-1. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.1, 16.0-rc-1. The patch consists in checking properly the rights of the user before performing any action on the filters. Users are advised to upgrade. It's possible to fix manually the vulnerability by editing the document `XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationPreferenceService` to apply the changes performed in commit e8acc9d8e6af7dfbfe70716ded431642ae4a6dd4.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-notifications-ui 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.1
  • org.xwiki.platform xwiki-platform-notifications-ui 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.1
  • xwiki xwiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • jira.xwiki.org https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20337 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-notifications-ui
>=13.2-rc-1, <14.10.21
>=15.0-rc-1, <15.5.5
>=15.6-rc-1, <15.10.1
14.10.21
15.5.5
15.10.1

Affected products

  • xwiki xwiki-platform

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

References

Sources

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.