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CVE-2025-54385: XWiki Platform's searchDocuments API allows for SQL injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In versions between 17.0.0-rc1 to 17.2.2 and versions 16.10.5 and below, it's possible to execute any SQL query in Oracle by using the function like DBMS_XMLGEN or DBMS_XMLQUERY. The XWiki#searchDocuments APIs pass queries directly to Hibernate without sanitization. Even when these APIs enforce a specific SELECT clause, attackers can still inject malicious code through HQL's native function support in other parts of the query (such as the WHERE clause). This is fixed in versions 16.10.6 and 17.3.0-rc-1.

Affected products

• xwiki-platform: before 16.10.6; from 17.0.0 through 17.2.2 — fixed in 16.10.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xwiki-platform 16.10.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/arpls/DBMS_XMLGEN.html
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/7313dc9b533c70f14b7672379c8b3b63d1fd8f51
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/7c4087d44ac550610b2fa413dd4f5375409265a5
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-p9qm-p942-q3w5
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22728
• https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/16.10.6

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