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CVE-2024-21648: XWiki has no right protection on rollback action

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-274

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The rollback action is missing a right protection, a user can rollback to a previous version of the page to gain rights they don't have anymore. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10.17, 15.5.3 and 15.8-rc-1 by ensuring that the rights are checked before performing the rollback.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: before 14.10.17; from 15.0 before 15.5.3; from 15.6 before 15.8 — fixed in 14.10.17, 15.5.3, 15.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 14.10.17, 15.5.3, 15.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/4de72875ca49602796165412741033bfdbf1e680
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-xh35-w7wg-95v3
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21257
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/4de72875ca49602796165412741033bfdbf1e680
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-xh35-w7wg-95v3
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21257

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