XWiki Platform has an Unauthenticated XAR Import via REST /wikis/{wikiName} (xwiki xwiki-platform)

CVE-2026-33137
CRITICAL 9.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.59 % · percentile 48 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Deferred

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting with 15.10.6 and prior to 18.1.0-rc-1, 17.10.3, 17.4.9, and 16.10.17, the POST /wikis/{wikiName} API executes a XAR import without performing any authentication or authorization checks, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to create or update documents in the target wiki. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 16.10.17, 17.4.9, 17.10.3, 18.0.1 and 18.1.0-rc-1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
xwiki · xwiki-platformaffected >= 15.10.6, < 16.10.17 ; affected >= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.4.9 ; affected >= 17.5.0, < 17.10.3 ; affected >= 18.0.0-rc-1, < 18.1.0-rc-1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD