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CVE-2025-31487: The XWiki JIRA extension allows data leak through an XXE attack by using a fake JIRA server

7.7 CVSS

Description

The XWiki JIRA extension provides various integration points between XWiki and JIRA (macros, UI, CKEditor plugin). If the JIRA macro is installed, any logged in XWiki user could edit his/her user profile wiki page and use that JIRA macro, specifying a fake JIRA URL that returns an XML specifying a DOCTYPE pointing to a local file on the XWiki server host and displaying that file's content in one of the returned JIRA fields (such as the summary or description for example). The vulnerability has been patched in the JIRA Extension v8.6.5.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-31487

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.7

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem Types

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

Vendor: xwiki-contrib

Product: jira

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 7.43% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-02 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31487
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/jira/security/advisories/GHSA-wc53-4255-gw3f
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/jira/commit/5049e352d16f8356734de70daf1202301f170ee6
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/jira/commit/98a74c2a516b42689c73b13ecd94e9c1998fa9cb
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/JIRA-49

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