What is CVE-2025-49580?

CVE-2025-49580 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xwiki, classified under Incorrect Privilege Assignment. CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2025-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-49580?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Xwiki

CVE-2025-49580

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. From 8.2 and 7.4.5 until 17.1.0-rc-1, 16.10.4, and 16.4.7, pages can gain script or programming rights when they contain a link and the target of the link is renamed or moved. This might lead to execution…

EPSS: 0.004 (28.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Xwiki
Xwiki Xwiki-platform — versions >= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.1.0-rc-1, >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.10.4, >= 8.2, < 16.4.7

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-266 — Incorrect Privilege Assignment

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-49580?: CVE-2025-49580 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xwiki, classified under Incorrect Privilege Assignment. CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2025-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-49580?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.