Critical severity · published Apr 30, 2025
CVE-2025-46557
Any user with view access to the XWiki space can change the authenticator
9.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 15.3-rc-1 to before 15.10.14, from 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.4.6, and from 16.5.0-rc-1 to before 16.10.0-rc-1, a user who can access pages located in the XWiki space (by default, anyone) can access the page XWiki.Authentication.Administration and (unless an authenticator is set in xwiki.cfg) switch to another installed authenticator. Note that, by default, there is only one authenticator available (Standard XWiki Authenticator). So, if no authenticator extension was installed, it's not really possible to do anything for an attacker. Also, in most cases, if an SSO authenticator is installed and utilized (like OIDC or LDAP for example), the worst an attacker can do is break authentication by switching back to the standard authenticator (that's because it's impossible to login to a user which does not have a stored password, and that's usually what SSO authenticator produce). This issue has been patched in versions 15.10.14, 16.4.6, and 16.10.0-rc-1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XW
xwiki-platform · xwiki
>= 15.3-rc-1, < 15.10.14; >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.6; >= 16.5.0-rc-1, < 16.10.0-rc-1 · source: vendor
XW
Xwiki · Xwiki
15.3 before 15.10.14; 16.0.0 before 16.4.6; 16.5.0 through 16.9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46557
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46557
Patch
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/5efc31cea1501c9a5cb593566fea8b558ff32a2a
Mitigation
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-f9c6-2f9p-82jj
Issue Tracking
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22604
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