xwiki/xwiki-platform · Security
XWiki configuration files can be accessed through the webjars API
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qww7-89xh-x7m7
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-55747
- 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/xwiki/webjars/wiki%3Axwiki/..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2FWEB-INF%2Fxwiki.cfg. The trick here is to encode the / which is decoded when parsing the URL segment, but not re-encoded when assembling the file path.
Patches
This has been patched in 17.4.0-rc-1, 16.10.7.
Workarounds
There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki.
References
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19350
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9e7b4c03f2143978d891109a17159f73d4cdd318#diff-45ea9c87d5fb68cd5db0da7f78cf25e76f1325f5fe56e21618b21786fc706236R80-R81
For more information
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CWEs
- CWE-23 · Relative Path Traversal
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-qww7-89xh-x7m7 ↗
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9e7b4c03f2143978d891109a17159f73d4cdd318#diff-45ea9c87d5fb68cd5db0da7f78cf25e76f1325f5fe56e21618b21786fc706236R80-R81 ↗
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19350 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55747 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qww7-89xh-x7m7 ↗