CVE-2025-52472

published 2025-10-06

CVE-2025-52472: XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Starting in version 4.3-milestone-1 and prior to…

Priority P1 81 critical 9.3 CVSS 4.0

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ITW EXPLOIT VulnCheck KEV

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Starting in version 4.3-milestone-1 and prior to versions 16.10.9, 17.4.2, and 17.5.0, the REST search URL is vulnerable to HQL injection via the `orderField` parameter. The specified value is added twice in the query, though, once in the field list for the select and once in the order clause, so it's not that easy to exploit. The part of the query between the two fields can be enclosed in single quotes to effectively remove them, but the query still needs to remain valid with the query two times in it. This has been patched in versions 17.5.0, 17.4.2, and 16.10.9. No known workarounds are available.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
xwiki	xwiki-platform	—	—
xwiki	xwiki-platform	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/search?q=test&scope=title&orderField=doc.fullName%20from%20XWikiDocument%20as%20doc%20where%20%24%24%3D%27%24%24%3Dconcat(chr(61)%2Cchr(39))%20and%20version()%7C%7Cpg_sleep(1)%3Dversion()%7C%7Cpg_sleep(1)%20and%20(1%3D1%20or%20%3F%3D%3F%20or%20%3F%3D%3F%20or%20%3F%3D%3F%20or%20%3F%3D%3F%20or%20%3F%3D%3F)%20--%20comment%27%20or%20a%3D%27%20order%20by%20doc.fullName↗

path /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/search↗

• → HTTP 500 response containing both 'xwiki' and 'QueryException: Exception while executing query. Query statement' in the body with content-type text/plain indicates successful HQL injection trigger via the orderField parameter. ↗
• → Shodan/FOFA fingerprint for exposed XWiki instances: search for html attribute 'data-xwiki-reference' in page body. ↗

• · The HQL injection payload is complex to exploit because the injected orderField value is inserted twice into the query (once in the SELECT field list and once in the ORDER BY clause); a valid injection must keep the overall query syntactically correct in both positions. ↗
• · The proof-of-concept payload uses PostgreSQL-specific functions (pg_sleep, version(), concat, chr); exploitation and time-based detection may differ or fail against non-PostgreSQL database backends. ↗
• · The vulnerability is exploitable without authentication (PR:N, UI:N per CVSS), meaning no session or credentials are required to send the malicious orderField payload. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v4.0 9.3 CRITICAL CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

vulncheck 9.3 CRITICAL

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