# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.7 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 May 2025
- **Updated:** 30 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c57g-9v2r-w8v3

## 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 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-48885 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48885 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-48885 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48885 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: xwikisas application-urlshortener. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48885/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48885/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48885
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48885
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-48885

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48885/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.