XWiki allows unregistered users to access private pages information through REST endpoint

CVE-2025-29925 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Impact

Protected pages are listed when requesting the REST endpoints /rest/wikis/[wikiName]/pages even if the user doesn't have view rights on them.
It's particularly true if the entire wiki is protected with "Prevent unregistered user to view pages": the endpoint would still list the pages of the wiki (actually it only impacts the main wiki due to XWIKI-22639).

Patches

The problem has been patched in XWiki 15.10.14, 16.4.6, 16.10.0RC1. In those versions the endpoint can still be requested but the result is filtered out based on pages rights.

Workarounds

There's no workaround except upgrading or applying manually the changes of the commits (see references) in xwiki-platform-rest-server and recompiling / rebuilding it.

References

  • Original JIRA ticket: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22630
  • Related JIRA ticket: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22639
  • Commits of the patch: https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/bca72f5ce971a31dba2a016d8dd8badda4475206 and https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/1fb12d2780f37b34a1b4dfdf8457d97ce5cbb2df

For more information

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Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
Advisory on GitHub
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Source code
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Published (advisory)
2025-03-19 20:34:43 UTC
Updated
2025-03-19 20:34:44 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2025-03-19 20:34:43 UTC
NVD published
2025-03-19

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.39% 59.69%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
8.7 4.0 —
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:N)
No user interaction is required.
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:H)
High confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:N)
No integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:N)
No availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-22q5-9phm-744v ↗
CVE CVE-2025-29925 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-402 Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')

Affected packages (3)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server >= 1.9M1, < 15.10.14 15.10.14 —
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.6 16.4.6 —
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.10.0-rc-1 16.10.0-rc-1 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence