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🛡️ CVE-2025-32968 — xwiki

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-89 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore allows SQL injection in short form select requests through the script query API

Impact

It is possible for a user with SCRIPT right to escape from the HQL execution context and perform a blind SQL injection to execute arbitrary SQL statements on the database backend.

Depending on the used database backend, the attacker may be able to not only obtain confidential information such as password hashes from the database, but also execute UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE queries.

The vulnerability may be tested in a default installation of XWIki Standard Flavor, including using the official Docker containers.

For example, with a MySQL or MariaDB database, you can use the following script (which a user having SCRIPT right but not PROGRAMMING right) to get the content of the xwikistrings table (which contain all the short string fields stored in objects, including passwords):

```

{{velocity}}

$services.query.hql("where 1<>'1\'' union select concat(XWS_NAME, XWS_VALUE) from xwikistrings #'").execute()

{{/velocity}}

```

Patches

This has been patched in 16.10.1, 16.4.6 and 15.10.16.

Workarounds

There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki.

The protection added to this REST API is the same as the one used to validate complete select queries, making it more consistent. However, while the script API always had this protection for complete queries, it's important to note that it's a very strict protection and some valid, but complex, queries might suddenly require the author to have programming right.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22718

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-32968 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2025-32968 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (from 16.5.0-rc-1 up to 16.10.1)
  • xwiki (from 16.5.0 up to 16.10.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-89: SQL Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-04-23
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-04-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore 16.5.0-rc-1 16.10.1
xwiki 16.5.0 16.10.1

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