CVE-2025-32971: XWiki Solr script service doesn't take dropped programming right into account

3.8 CVSS

Description

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 4.5.1 to before 15.10.13, from 16.0.0-rc-1 to before 16.4.4, and from 16.5.0-rc-1 to before 16.8.0-rc-1, the Solr script service doesn't take dropped programming rights into account. The Solr script service that is accessible in XWiki's scripting API normally requires programming rights to be called. Due to using the wrong API for checking rights, it doesn't take the fact into account that programming rights might have been dropped by calling `$xcontext.dropPermissions()`. If some code relies on this for the safety of executing Velocity code with the wrong author context, this could allow a user with script rights to either cause a high load by indexing documents or to temporarily remove documents from the search index. This issue has been patched in versions 15.10.13, 16.4.4, and 16.8.0-rc-1.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-32971

CVSS Base Severity: LOW

CVSS Base Score: 3.8

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

Problem Types

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Vendor: xwiki

Product: xwiki-platform

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.25% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-29 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32971
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-987p-r3jc-8c8v
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/6570f40f976aec82baf388b5239d1412cab238c9
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22474

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