xwiki · xwiki-platform
XWiki Platform (the xwiki-platform product) has an HQL injection flaw in its REST search endpoint for wiki and space search, where the orderField parameter is not properly neutralised.
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.
First seen exploited 52 days after disclosure.
6 fixes in xwiki-platform-rest-server over 14 months. The latest fix listed for xwiki-platform-rest-server is 18.1.0-rc-1.
No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
1 package in 1 ecosystem. Main package: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server.
Upgrade to 17.4.2 or later
Set the version to 17.4.2 or later in your pom.xml or build.gradle.
The first fix for CVE-2025-52472.
| If you run | Upgrade to |
|---|---|
| 17.0.0-rc-1 up to 17.4.2 | 17.4.2 |
| 4.3-milestone-1 up to 16.10.9 | 16.10.9 |
“Up to” means the second version is the fix and is not affected.