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CVE-2024-46978: Missing checks for notification filter preferences editions in XWiki Platform

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: yes
• Published: 2024-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-648

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible for any user knowing the ID of a notification filter preference of another user, to enable/disable it or even delete it. The impact is that the target user might start loosing notifications on some pages because of this. This vulnerability is present in XWiki since 13.2-rc-1. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.1, 16.0-rc-1. The patch consists in checking properly the rights of the user before performing any action on the filters. Users are advised to upgrade. It's possible to fix manually the vulnerability by editing the document `XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationPreferenceService` to apply the changes performed in commit e8acc9d8e6af7dfbfe70716ded431642ae4a6dd4.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 13.2 before 14.10.21; from 15.0 before 15.5.5; from 15.6 before 15.10.1 — fixed in 14.10.21, 15.10.1, 15.5.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 14.10.21, 15.10.1, 15.5.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/e8acc9d8e6af7dfbfe70716ded431642ae4a6dd4
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-r95w-889q-x2gx
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20337

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