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CVE-2024-45591: XWiki Platform document history including authors of any page exposed to unauthorized actors

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-359

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. The REST API exposes the history of any page in XWiki of which the attacker knows the name. The exposed information includes for each modification of the page the time of the modification, the version number, the author of the modification (both username and displayed name) and the version comment. This information is exposed regardless of the rights setup, and even when the wiki is configured to be fully private. On a private wiki, this can be tested by accessing /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Main/pages/WebHome/history, if this shows the history of the main page then the installation is vulnerable. This has been patched in XWiki 15.10.9 and XWiki 16.3.0RC1.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 1.8 before 15.10.9; from 16.0.0 before 16.3.0 — fixed in 15.10.9, 16.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 15.10.9, 16.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/26482ee5d29fc21f31134d1ee13db48716e89e0f
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9cbca9808300797c67779bb9a665d85cf9e3d4b8
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-pvmm-55r5-g3mm
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22052

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