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🛡️ CVE-2025-54385 — xwiki

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

XWiki Platform vulnerable to SQL injection through XWiki#searchDocuments API

Impact

It's possible to execute any SQL query in Oracle by using the function like [DBMS_XMLGEN or DBMS_XMLQUERY](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/arpls/DBMS_XMLGEN.html).

The XWiki#searchDocuments APIs are not sanitizing the query at all and even if they force a specific select, Hibernate allows using any native function in an HQL query (for example in the WHERE).

Patches

This has been patched in 16.10.6 and 17.3.0-rc-1.

Workarounds

There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22728

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 no 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:N/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: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • 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-2025-54385 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2025-54385 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (from 17.0.0-rc1 up to 17.3.0-rc-1)
  • xwiki (from 17.0.0 up to 17.2.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 July 2025 and last revised on 28 July 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 (Web)
docs.oracle.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)
www.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-20: Improper Input Validation) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-25
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-07-28

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore 17.0.0-rc1 17.3.0-rc-1
xwiki 17.0.0 17.2.2

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