CVE-2024-37898CWE-862

XWiki Platform vulnerable to document deletion and overwrite from edit

Medium · published July 31, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. When a user has view but not edit right on a page in XWiki, that user can delete the page and replace it by a page with new content without having delete right. The previous version of the page is moved into the recycle bin and can be restored from there by an admin. As the user is recorded as deleter, the user would in theory also be able to view the deleted content, but this is not directly possible as rights of the previous version are transferred to the new page and thus the user still doesn't have view right on the page. It therefore doesn't seem to be possible to exploit this to gain any rights. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5 and 15.10.6 by cancelling save operations by users when a new document shall be saved despite the document's existing already.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00398 · 32.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2024-07-31T15:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 JUL 15:12Z
    XWiki Platform vulnerable to document deletion and overwrite from edit
    cvelistv5