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 of scripts contained in xobjects that should have never been executed. This vulnerability is fixed in 17.1.0-rc-1, 16.10.4, and 16.4.7.

Published 2025-06-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (37.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 37th percentile — 37.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.001

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

github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-jm43-hrq7-r7w6 (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ab209acd780da69a4c5ff77ff011efd698273cec (Patch)
jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22836 (Exploit, 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.