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CVE-2025-54125 — xwiki-platform-oldcore

Fix: xwiki/xwiki-platform@742ee34

CVE-2025-54125 is a CWE-359 vulnerability in org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore. A fix is available for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore — see the affected versions and patch details below.

XWiki Platform: Password and email exposure in xml.vm fields

Also known asGHSA-57q2-6cp4-9mq3
Published
Updated
Affected
6 pkgs
Patched
6 / 6
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 9, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Proof-of-concept exploit code exists

  • CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-54125.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.5%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk+0.03%
Lower risk than most CVEs74th percentile — riskier than 74% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.06%0.70%1.34%1.98%0.6%1.5%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

Real-World Exposure

6 pkgs affected
☕org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore☕org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore☕org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore☕org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore☕org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore☕org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore

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Description

Impact

The XML export of a page in XWiki that can be triggered by any user with view rights on a page by appending ?xpage=xml to the URL includes password and email properties stored on a document that aren't named password or email. This allows any user to obtain the salted and hashed user account validation or password reset token. As those tokens are randomly generated strings, the immediate impact of this should be low. The user's password and email itself aren't exposed as those fields are named password and email and thus aren't affected. However, depending on how the wiki is used, there could be extensions or custom code that store passwords in plain text in such password properties that would be exposed by this vulnerability.

Patches

This vulnerability has been fixed by completely removing the output of password and email fields in this XML export in versions 17.2.0 RC1, 16.10.5 and 16.4.7.

Workarounds

If this XML export isn't needed, the file templates/xml.vm in the deployed WAR can be deleted. There isn't any feature in XWiki itself that depends on this XML export.

Affected Packages

6 total 6 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
☕Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore≥ 1.1&&< 16.4.716.4.7org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:16.4.7
☕Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore≥ 16.5.0-rc-1&&< 16.10.516.10.5org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:16.10.5
☕Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore≥ 17.0.0-rc-1&&< 17.2.0-rc-117.2.0-rc-1org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:17.2.0-rc-1
☕Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore≥ 1.1&&< 16.4.716.4.7org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore:16.4.7
☕Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore≥ 16.5.0-rc-1&&< 16.10.516.10.5org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore:16.10.5
☕Mavenorg.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore≥ 17.0.0-rc-1&&< 17.2.0-rc-117.2.0-rc-1org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore:17.2.0-rc-1

Affected Products

1 product · 3 configurations
Application
xwikixwiki
≥ 17.0.0 && ≤ 17.1.0
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore to 16.4.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-54125 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

How to detect CVE-2025-54125

A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:

nuclei -id cve-2025-54125 -u https://target
Template
XWiki XML View - Sensitive Information Exposure
Severity
high
Impact
Unauthenticated attackers can access sensitive information including passwords and email addresses stored in custom user profile fields through the XML view functionality.
Remediation
Upgrade XWiki to the latest version that properly protects sensitive custom fields in XML view outputs.

Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (ritikchaddha), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.

Frequently Asked Questions

### Impact The XML export of a page in XWiki that can be triggered by any user with view rights on a page by appending `?xpage=xml` to the URL includes password and email properties stored on a document that aren't named `password` or `email`. This allows any user to obtain the salted and hashed user account validation or password reset token. As those tokens are randomly generated strings, the immediate impact of this should be low. The user's password and email itself aren't exposed as those fields are named `password` and `email` and thus aren't affected. However, depending on how the wiki
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2025-54125: xwiki-platform-oldcore — Fixed in 16.4.7