Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-31984

RCE in Xwiki 7.3 – 14.10.20

Public PoCHigh EPSSRCE
Published
10 April 2024
Modified
21 January 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 9.9
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.83 99.6th percentile
Risk Priority 92 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-31984 is a critical-severity Eval Injection (CWE-95) vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki. Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

XWiki Platform contains a remote code execution vulnerability in its Solr-based search component, present from version 7.2-rc-1 through releases prior to 14.10.20, 15.5.4, and 15.10-rc-1. The flaw is triggered when a document is created with a specially crafted title, allowing injection that executes arbitrary Groovy code during search operations and is tracked under CWE-94 and CWE-95.

Any user permitted to edit the title of a space, which includes all users by default, can exploit the issue to run arbitrary Groovy code on the server. Successful exploitation grants full control over the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the XWiki installation.

The project has released fixes in XWiki 14.10.20, 15.5.4, and 15.10-rc-1. The referenced commits show the corrective changes, and a workaround consists of manually applying the patch to the Main.SolrSpaceFacet page.

The EPSS score has reached a peak of 0.6604 with a current value of 0.6006.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 7.2-rc-1 and prior to versions 4.10.20, 15.5.4, and 15.10-rc-1, by creating a document with a specially crafted title, it is possible to trigger remote code execution in the (Solr-based) search…

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in XWiki. This allows any user who can edit the title of a space (all users by default) to execute any Groovy code in the XWiki installation which compromises the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.20, 15.5.4 and 15.10 RC1. As a workaround, manually apply the patch to the `Main.SolrSpaceFacet` page.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

Likely ATT&CK TechniquesAI

Techniques this vulnerability likely enables, inferred from its description, weakness type, and attributed-actor tradecraft. Confidence is per-technique.

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Accessconfidence: HIGH
The vulnerability allows unauthenticated or low-privileged users to trigger remote code execution via a crafted document title in the publicly accessible Solr search component.
T1059.006 Python Executionconfidence: HIGH
Arbitrary Groovy code supplied in the document title is executed server-side during search operations.
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalationconfidence: HIGH
Successful exploitation grants full server control, enabling privilege escalation from any user who can edit space titles.
inferred from description + CWE · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

xwiki
xwiki
7.2 · 7.3 — 14.10.20 · 15.0 — 15.5.4 · 15.6 — 15.10

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.3.1
  • V1.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly blocks the crafted document title from injecting executable Groovy code into the Solr search component.

prevent

Restricts title-edit rights on spaces to only those users who require the privilege, reducing the population able to trigger the RCE.

prevent

Mandates prompt application of the vendor patches (or the documented Main.SolrSpaceFacet workaround) that close the injection flaw.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require input neutralization and avoidance of unsafe dynamic evaluation.

PR.DS-10 none match
prevents

PR.DS-10 protects runtime data confidentiality/integrity but has no bearing on neutralizing externally influenced input during code generation, so neither direction shows any preventive effect.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing in development can detect eval injection vulnerabilities before deployment.

prevents

Secure development life cycle mandates input validation and safe coding practices that directly prevent eval injection.

prevents

Application security requirements include rules against dynamic code execution of untrusted input.

prevents

Secure architecture principles discourage unsafe dynamic evaluation constructs.

prevents

Secure coding explicitly requires neutralization of input before dynamic evaluation, directly mitigating eval injection.

none

Separation of environments limits the blast radius if eval injection occurs in non-production.

References