XWiki Exploit Chaos: Cryptocurrency Miners and Botnets Jump on CVE-2025-24893 Bandwagon
Threat actors are swarming like bees to honey, exploiting the XWiki vulnerability CVE-2025-24893. Discovered in May, patched in June, but only given a CVE in 2025, this flaw is now the darling of crypto miners and botnets everywhere. VulnCheck reports it’s like a Black Friday sale for hackers, with everyone getting a piece of the action.
Hot Take:
Well, folks, it looks like the XWiki vulnerability is the new hot commodity in the cybercriminal stock market! Who knew user-supplied input could fuel such a frenzy? The race to mine crypto faster than your neighbor with a 9.8-rated flaw is officially on. It’s as if cybercriminals are saying, “Move over Bitcoin miners; we’ve got a CVE to exploit!”
Key Points:
- Critical XWiki flaw CVE-2025-24893 is being exploited en masse.
- The flaw allows remote code execution via improperly sanitized input.
- Initial exploitation began shortly after the vulnerability was made public.
- Multiple threat actors, including botnets and crypto miners, are exploiting the bug.
- Security agencies, including CISA, have flagged it as a known exploited vulnerability.
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