# XWiki Platform: Remote code execution as guest via DatabaseSearch

Advisory record · `GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9` · `CVE-2024-31982`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 10.0 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+, CVSS 7+ and EPSS
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-94](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html) · [CWE-95](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/95.html)
- **Tags:** [Code injection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/code-injection.md)
- **Published:** 10 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 10 Apr 2024, 17:12 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.
- CVSS score 10.0 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.35 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-ui` (Maven): affected `>=2.4-milestone-1, <14.10.20 || >=15.0-rc-1, <15.5.4 || >=15.6-rc-1, <15.10-rc-1`; fixed in `14.10.20`, `15.5.4`, `15.10-rc-1`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> XWiki Platform's xwiki-platform-search-ui package is vulnerable to remote code execution through the database search text in versions from 2.4-milestone-1 before 14.10.20, from 15.0-rc-1 before 15.5.4, and from 15.6-rc-1 before 15.10-rc-1. An attacker needs no account, since the database search is accessible to any visitor by default, and can run code on the whole XWiki installation. Upgrade to 14.10.20, 15.5.4, 15.10-rc-1 or later. Alternatively, if database search is not used, the Main.DatabaseSearch page can be deleted.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 10.0 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.35, the 98th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9)
- [OSV: GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9)
- <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31982>
- <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/3c9e4bb04286de94ad24854026a09fa967538e31>
- <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/459e968be8740c8abc2a168196ce21e5ba93cfb8>
- <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/95bdd6cc6298acdf7f8f21298d40eeb8390a8565>
- <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform>
- <https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21472>
- <https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2024-31982-detect-xwiki-vulnerability>
- <https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2024-31982-xwiki-mitigation-vulnerability>
- <https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/xwiki-rce-cve-2024-31982>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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The web page: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/GHSA-2858-8cfx-69m9/>. Everything for agents: <https://agentprime.io/llms.txt>.
