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XWiki 6.1-milestone-1 < 15.10.12, 16.0.0-rc-1 < 16.4.3, 16.5.0-rc-1 < 16.8.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GHSA-rp38-24m3-rx87)

🗓️ 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType 
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XWiki 6.1 to 16.8.0 has a privilege escalation vulnerability allowing unauthorized cache cleaning.

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:xwiki:xwiki";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.124871");
  script_version("2025-11-19T05:40:23+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-11-19 05:40:23 +0000 (Wed, 19 Nov 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-07-18 05:10:52 +0000 (Fri, 18 Jul 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2025-05-13 15:05:07 +0000 (Tue, 13 May 2025)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-32972");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("XWiki 6.1-milestone-1 < 15.10.12, 16.0.0-rc-1 < 16.4.3, 16.5.0-rc-1 < 16.8.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GHSA-rp38-24m3-rx87)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  script_dependencies("gb_xwiki_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("xwiki/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Xwiki is prone to a privilege escalation
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The script API of the LESS compiler in XWiki is incorrectly
  checking for rights when calling the cache cleaning API, making it possible to clean the cache
  without having programming right.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"XWiki version 6.1-milestone-1 prior to 15.10.12, 16.0.0-rc-1
  prior to 16.4.3 and 16.5.0-rc-1 prior to 16.8.0.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 15.10.12, 16.4.3, 16.8.0 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rp38-24m3-rx87");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) )
  exit( 0 );

if ( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if( version_in_range_exclusive( version:version, test_version_lo:"6.1-milestone-1", test_version_up:"15.10.12" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"15.10.12", install_path:location );
  security_message( port:port, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

if( version_in_range_exclusive( version:version, test_version_lo:"16.0.0-rc-1", test_version_up:"16.4.3" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"16.4.3", install_path:location );
  security_message( port:port, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

if( version_in_range_exclusive( version:version, test_version_lo:"16.5.0-rc-1", test_version_up:"16.8.0" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"16.8.0", install_path:location );
  security_message( port:port, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );

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19 Nov 2025 00:00Current
6.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.7
CVSS 3.12.7 - 5.3
EPSS0.00478
SSVC
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