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🛡️ CVE-2025-54125 — xwiki

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-359 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

XWiki exposes passwords and emails stored in fields not named password/email in xml.vm

Impact

The XML export of a page in XWiki that can be triggered by any user with view rights on a page by appending ?xpage=xml to the URL includes password and email properties stored on a document that aren't named password or email. This allows any user to obtain the salted and hashed user account validation or password reset token. As those tokens are randomly generated strings, the immediate impact of this should be low. The user's password and email itself aren't exposed as those fields are named password and email and thus aren't affected. However, depending on how the wiki is used, there could be extensions or custom code that store passwords in plain text in such password properties that would be exposed by this vulnerability.

Patches

This vulnerability has been fixed by completely removing the output of password and email fields in this XML export in versions 17.2.0 RC1, 16.10.5 and 16.4.7.

Workarounds

If this XML export isn't needed, the file templates/xml.vm in the deployed WAR can be deleted. There isn't any feature in XWiki itself that depends on this XML export.

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 none, availability none.

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:N/A:N

  • 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: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-54125 is classified as CWE-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor. The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the…

Affected software

CVE-2025-54125 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore (from 17.0.0-rc-1 up to 17.2.0-rc-1)
  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (from 17.0.0-rc-1 up to 17.2.0-rc-1)
  • xwiki (from 17.0.0 up to 17.1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 August 2025 and last revised on 6 August 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

Other advisories for this package

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-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-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-359
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-08-06

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore 17.0.0-rc-1 17.2.0-rc-1
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore 17.0.0-rc-1 17.2.0-rc-1
xwiki 17.0.0 17.1.0

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