CVE-2021-32729A user without PR can reset user authentication failures information
- 2.0LowCVSS base score
- 0.50%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A vulnerability exists in versions prior to 12.6.88, 12.10.4, and 13.0. The script service method used to reset the authentication failures record can be executed by any user with Script rights and does not require Programming rights. An attacher with script rights who is able to reset the authentication failure record might perform a brute force attack, since they would be able to virtually deactivate the mechanism introduced to mitigate those attacks. The problem has been patched in version 12.6.8, 12.10.4 and 13.0. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 50 days later
· 50 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low2.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.0.
Affected products
- affected > 11.6RC1, < 12.6.8
- affected >= 12.10.0, < 12.10.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-security-authentication-scriptGHSA-m738-3rc4-5xv3 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-m738-3rc4-5xv3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18276 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-1481 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m738-3rc4-5xv3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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