xwiki/xwiki-platform · Security
XWiki configuration files can be accessed through jsx and sx endpoints
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-m63c-3rmg-r2cf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-55748
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · 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
Description
Impact
It's possible to get access and read configuration files by using URLs such as http://localhost:8080/bin/ssx/Main/WebHome?resource=../../WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg&minify=false.
This can apparently be reproduced on Tomcat instances.
Patches
This has been patched in 17.4.0-rc-1, 16.10.7.
Workarounds
There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
- Email us at Security Mailing List
Attribution
The vulnerability was reported by Gregor Neumann.
CWEs
- CWE-23 · Relative Path Traversal
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-m63c-3rmg-r2cf ↗
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9e7b4c03f2143978d891109a17159f73d4cdd318#diff-ee78930a9ac5ea586179fe8ab88a5fd58e369d175927d1e88a0b4dbc3ebcbf1eR62 ↗
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23109 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55748 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m63c-3rmg-r2cf ↗