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GHSA-GWJ6-XPFG-PXWR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-08 20:59 – Updated: 2025-09-10 21:05

Summary

XWiki Blog Application: Privilege Escalation (PR) from account through blog content

Details

Impact

The blog application in XWiki allowed remote code execution for any user who has edit right on any page. Normally, these are all logged-in users as they can edit their own user profile. To exploit, it is sufficient to add an object of type Blog.BlogPostClass to any page and to add some script macro with the exploit code to the "Content" field of that object.

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in the blog application version 9.14 by executing the content of blog posts with the rights of the appropriate author.

Workarounds

We're not aware of any workarounds.

Resources

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-191
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-blog/commit/b98ab6f17da3029576f42d12b4442cd555c7e0b4

Severity

8.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.xwiki.contrib.blog:application-blog-ui"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            },
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-58365"
  ],
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      "CWE-250",
      "CWE-94",
      "CWE-95"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-09-08T20:59:47Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-09-08T22:15:34Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "### Impact\nThe blog application in XWiki allowed remote code execution for any user who has edit right on any page. Normally, these are all logged-in users as they can edit their own user profile. To exploit, it is sufficient to add an object of type `Blog.BlogPostClass` to any page and to add some script macro with the exploit code to the \"Content\" field of that object.\n\n### Patches\nThe vulnerability has been patched in the blog application version 9.14 by executing the content of blog posts with the rights of the appropriate author.\n\n### Workarounds\nWe\u0027re not aware of any workarounds.\n\n### Resources\n* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-191\n* https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-blog/commit/b98ab6f17da3029576f42d12b4442cd555c7e0b4",
  "id": "GHSA-gwj6-xpfg-pxwr",
  "modified": "2025-09-10T21:05:21Z",
  "published": "2025-09-08T20:59:47Z",
  "references": [
    {
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      "url": "https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-blog/security/advisories/GHSA-gwj6-xpfg-pxwr"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-58365"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
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    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-blog"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-191"
    }
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      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "XWiki Blog Application: Privilege Escalation (PR) from account through blog content"
}

CVE-2025-58365 (GCVE-0-2025-58365)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-08 21:19 – Updated: 2025-09-09 13:37

Title

XWiki Blog Application: Privilege Escalation (PR) from account through blog content

Summary

The XWiki blog application allows users of the XWiki platform to create and manage blog posts. Prior to version 9.14, the blog application in XWiki allowed remote code execution for any user who has edit right on any page. Normally, these are all logged-in users as they can edit their own user profile. For an exploit, it is sufficient to add an object of type `Blog.BlogPostClass` to any page and to add some script macro with the exploit code to the "Content" field of that object. The vulnerability has been patched in the blog application version 9.14 by executing the content of blog posts with the rights of the appropriate author. No known workarounds are available.

Severity

8.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-09-09 13:37 UTC

CWE

CWE-95 - Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-blog…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-blog…	x_refsource_MISC
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-191	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
xwiki-contrib	application-blog	Affected: < 9.14

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