Critical 9.3Published Oct 6, 2025

CVE-2025-52472XWiki Platform vulnerable to HQL injection via wiki and space search REST API

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 2:30 PM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 9.3 CRITICAL (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-89
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Oct 6, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

xwiki xwiki-platform xwiki:platform (from the name)	from 4.3-milestone-1, < 16.10.9; from 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.4.2	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-gprp-h92g-gc2h	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/743ebf8696ffa55161ed2c5ecf26b09f69e6bcf1	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/a45eca2af772abb7324e56d7fd2df1ac937bc445	x-refsource-misc
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23247	x-refsource-misc

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