Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-24893

CVE-2025-24893

xwiki xwiki-platform — Remote code execution as guest via SolrSearchMacros request in xwiki

Description · from the CVE record

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

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
xwiki-platform>= 5.3-milestone-2, < 15.10.11–CNA
xwiki-platform>= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.1–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rr6p-3pfg-562jrefgithub.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/67021db9b8ed26c2236a653269302a86bf01ef40refgithub.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#L955refgithub.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/67021db9b8ed26c2236a653269302a86bf01ef40/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/xwiki-platform-web-templates/src/main/resources/templates/macros.vm#L2824refjira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22149refcisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24893kevcisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog