CVE-2025-48885 application-urlshortener users can create arbitrary pages as long as they have view access to them
Guest users can create arbitrary wiki pages, allowing them to clutter the system and disrupt administrative management.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-48885?
CVE-2025-48885 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in xwikisas application-urlshortener, published on 30 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
application-urlshortener create shortened URLs for XWiki pages. Versions prior to 1.2.4 are vulnerable to users with view access being able to create arbitrary pages. Any user (even guests) can create these docs, even if they don't exist already. This can enable guest users to denature the structure of wiki pages, by creating 1000's of pages with random name, that then become very difficult to handle by admins. Version 1.2.4 fixes the issue. No known workarounds are available.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48885?
How do I fix CVE-2025-48885?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-48885 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-48885 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48885 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c57g-9v2r-w8v3.