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CVE-2025-24893: XWiki Platform Eval Injection Vulnerability

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2025-10-30
• EPSS: 100.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-95

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any guest can perform arbitrary remote code execution through a request to `SolrSearch`. This impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation. To reproduce on an instance, without being logged in, go to `<host>/xwiki/bin/get/Main/SolrSearch?media=rss&text=%7D%7D%7D%7B%7Basync%20async%3Dfalse%7D%7D%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28"Hello%20from"%20%2B%20"%20search%20text%3A"%20%2B%20%2823%20%2B%2019%29%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D%7B%7B%2Fasync%7D%7D%20`. If there is an output, and the title of the RSS feed contains `Hello from search text:42`, then the instance is vulnerable. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10.11, 16.4.1 and 16.5.0RC1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may edit `Main.SolrSearchMacros` in `SolrSearchMacros.xml` on line 955 to match the `rawResponse` macro in `macros.vm#L2824` with a content type of `application/xml`, instead of simply outputting the content of the feed.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: from 5.4 before 15.10.11; from 16.0.0 before 16.4.1; 5.3, 5.3-milestone2, 5.3-rc1 — fixed in 15.10.11, 16.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 15.10.11, 16.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/568447cad5172d97d6bbcfda9f6183689c2cf086/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-search/xwiki-platform-search-solr/xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui/src/main/resources/Main/SolrSearchMacros.xml#L955
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/67021db9b8ed26c2236a653269302a86bf01ef40/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/xwiki-platform-web-templates/src/main/resources/templates/macros.vm#L2824
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/67021db9b8ed26c2236a653269302a86bf01ef40
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rr6p-3pfg-562j
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22149
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24893

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