`CVE-2025-32969` XWiki

Affected software	XWiki
Severity	9.3 Critical CVSS 4.0 2 scores
Fixed in	`15.10.16`, `16.4.6`, `16.10.1`
Weakness	SQL injection (CWE-89)
Published	23 Apr 2025
Updated	3 Nov 2026

Description

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. In versions starting from 1.8 and prior to 15.10.16, 16.4.6, and 16.10.1, it is possible for a remote unauthenticated user to escape from the HQL execution context and perform a blind SQL injection to execute arbitrary SQL statements on the database backend, including when "Prevent unregistered users from viewing pages, regardless of the page rights" and "Prevent unregistered users from editing pages, regardless of the page rights" options are enabled. Depending on the used database backend, the attacker may be able to not only obtain confidential information such as password hashes from the database, but also execute UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE queries. This issue has been patched in versions 16.10.1, 16.4.6 and 15.10.16. There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki.

Exploitation status

Exploited

Real-world exploitation reported by VulnCheck KEV. CISA has not confirmed it.

CISA KEV not listed
VulnCheck KEV listed Exploitation reported in the wild. 1 citation · honeypot sightings · earliest 2025-09-04.
CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Nuclei.
EPSS 80% chance in 30 days A model's forecast, not a report of exploitation. Higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs.

VulnCheck KEV

Exploitation evidence from VulnCheck Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (VulnCheck KEV), used under VulnCheck's community terms. View CVE-2025-32969 in VulnCheck (free account).

Evidence	Source	Detail	Date
Honeypot sighting	Shadowserver honeypots	Exploitation attempts seen on 19 days	2026-09-13 to 2026-11-04
Honeypot sighting	VulnCheck canaries	Exploitation attempts seen on 58 days	2025-10-17 to 2026-11-12
Reported exploitation	app.crowdsec.net	/cti/cve-explorer/CVE-2025-32969	2025-09-04

Evidence

Source

Detail

Date

Honeypot sighting

Shadowserver honeypots

Exploitation attempts seen on 19 days

2026-09-13 to 2026-11-04

Honeypot sighting

VulnCheck canaries

Exploitation attempts seen on 58 days

2025-10-17 to 2026-11-12

Reported exploitation

app.crowdsec.net

/cti/cve-explorer/CVE-2025-32969

2025-09-04

Index	Artifact	Stars	First seen
Nuclei	XWiki REST API Query - SQL Injection

Index

Artifact

Stars

First seen

Nuclei

XWiki REST API Query - SQL Injection

Waratek protection

Mitigation candidate

A kind of vulnerability Waratek's rules address, with exploit code published or exploitation reported. No rule exists and none is planned yet. The decision below says what we found to build a rule from.

Protection none
Action feasible
Review human Researcher
Record active

Decided by	A researcher's recorded decision for this specific CVE
Finding	A researcher set this CVE's status to Mitigation candidate.

Decided by

A researcher's recorded decision for this specific CVE

Finding

A researcher set this CVE's status to Mitigation candidate.

Waratek research note

written 2026-11-13

Written by a Waratek engineer who reviewed this CVE. Their decision sets the status above, ahead of every automated rule except a withdrawal.

Comments

HQL injection in XWiki's REST query endpoint (/rest/wikis/xwiki/query?type=hql), reachable unauthenticated, escaping the HQL context into native SQL. The SQL rule does not detect SQL injection through Hibernate HQL queries (PM-79), the same gap as CVE-2025-52472.

CVSS

9.3 CRITICAL v4.0

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

Version Score Band Vector Assigner Type

CVSS 4.0 9.3 CRITICAL 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X security-advisories@github.com Secondary published

CVSS 3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD Primary

Version	Score	Band	Vector	Assigner	Type
CVSS 4.0	9.3	CRITICAL	`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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X`	security-advisories@github.com	Secondary	published
CVSS 3.1	9.8	CRITICAL	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`	NVD	Primary

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev

Package Introduced Fixed Last affected

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server 1.8 15.10.16 unbounded

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server 16.0.0-rc-1 16.4.6 unbounded

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server 16.5.0-rc-1 16.10.1 unbounded

Package	Introduced	Fixed	Last affected
`org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server`	1.8	`15.10.16`	unbounded
`org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server`	16.0.0-rc-1	`16.4.6`	unbounded
`org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server`	16.5.0-rc-1	`16.10.1`	unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 6 version entries

Source	Vendor	Product	Scheme	Affected versions
osv	org.xwiki.platform	xwiki-platform-rest-server	generic	≥ 1.8 and ＜ 15.10.16 · ≥ 16.0.0 and ＜ 16.4.6 · ≥ 16.5.0 and ＜ 16.10.1
nvd	xwiki	xwiki	generic	≥ 1.8 and ＜ 15.10.16 · ≥ 16.0.0 and ＜ 16.4.6 · ≥ 16.5.0 and ＜ 16.10.1

Source

Vendor

Product

Scheme

Affected versions

osv

org.xwiki.platform

xwiki-platform-rest-server

generic

≥ 1.8 and ＜ 15.10.16 · ≥ 16.0.0 and ＜ 16.4.6 · ≥ 16.5.0 and ＜ 16.10.1

nvd

xwiki

generic

≥ 1.8 and ＜ 15.10.16 · ≥ 16.0.0 and ＜ 16.4.6 · ≥ 16.5.0 and ＜ 16.10.1

References

URL	Tags
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-f69v-xrj8-rhxf	WEB
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/5c11a874bd24a581f534d283186e209bbccd8113	WEB
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform	PACKAGE
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22691	WEB

URL

Timeline

Published	2025-04-23	By the CVE Program.
VulnCheck KEV: earliest evidence	2025-09-04	Date of the oldest evidence of exploitation in VulnCheck KEV's record. VulnCheck does not publish the date it listed the CVE.
NVD record modified	2026-06-17	NVD's own last-modified date for this record.
Last VRT activity	2026-11-03	Most recent commit touching this CVE's classification, patch or rule file.
VulnCheck KEV: latest evidence	2026-11-12	Date of the newest report, exploit reference or honeypot sighting in VulnCheck KEV's record.
Classification created	2026-11-13	First commit adding this CVE's research note.

Published

2025-04-23

By the CVE Program.

VulnCheck KEV: earliest evidence

2025-09-04

Date of the oldest evidence of exploitation in VulnCheck KEV's record. VulnCheck does not publish the date it listed the CVE.

NVD record modified

2026-06-17

NVD's own last-modified date for this record.

Last VRT activity

2026-11-03

Most recent commit touching this CVE's classification, patch or rule file.

VulnCheck KEV: latest evidence

2026-11-12

Date of the newest report, exploit reference or honeypot sighting in VulnCheck KEV's record.

Classification created

2026-11-13

First commit adding this CVE's research note.

How VRT decided (4 of 24 rules ran)

4 of 24 rules ran. The rest didn't run because an earlier rule had already settled the CVE.

# Rule Outcome Status Detail

identity: Does this identifier describe a vulnerability at all? the first rule that matches decides

1 rejected no match CVE Program withdrawal of this identifier

scope: Is it a vulnerability Waratek protects? the first rule that matches decides

2 armr-patch-file no match An ARMR patch file on disk for this CVE

3 armr-secure-rule-file no match An ARMR security-rule template on disk for this CVE

4 manual-classification decided it matched Mitigation candidate A researcher set this CVE's status to Mitigation candidate.

5 manual classification not reached Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset

6 non-java-upstream not reached A root cause in non-Java code: an OS kernel, a C library, or a bundled runtime

7 oracle-component not reached The defect being in a component of a tracked product the agent does not reach: JavaFX, the Java SE installer, the JInitiator browser plug-in, the native WebLogic proxy plug-in, or a native part of Oracle Application Server or Collaboration Suite (HTTP Server, Web Cache, Internet Directory, mail and calendar servers). Oracle gives these no CPE of their own and names them only in the description.

8 java-client-side not reached Oracle's own risk-matrix note saying the CVE is reached only through untrusted code in the Java sandbox (applets, Web Start) or only through a client installation of Java, so a server running its own trusted code is not exposed

9 osv-maven not reached An OSV.dev record of this CVE affecting a package published to Maven Central. When every such package is one business applications do not use (Minecraft mods and launchers, Fastjson) and no tracked product is named by CPE, it settles the CVE as Outside Waratek scope instead

10 cna-maven-package not reached An affected Maven artifact named by the CNA itself

11 known-cpe-product not reached An NVD CPE naming a product ARMR tracks

12 cna-cpe-product not reached A CPE the CNA published naming a tracked product. Oracle publishes these on advisory day, months before NVD.

13 oracle-advisory-family not reached A tracked product family named in Oracle's own risk matrix. CPE cannot carry a suite name, only a module.

14 cna-named-product not reached A tracked product named in words by the CVE's own CNA, on a record with no CPE yet. Apache and Eclipse publish these on advisory day, before NVD adds CPE data.

15 non-deployable-product not reached The only affected product being a sealed appliance image, where Java runs but no -javaagent can be attached

16 unmatched-product not reached No tracked product matched above, and none present at all

disposition: What do we do about one that is? every rule runs

17 patch-hint not reached A reference pointing at the upstream fix: a commit, a PR, a Red Hat bug

18 open-source-maven not reached The affected package being open source on Maven, so the fix can be read

19 poc-derivable not reached An indexed exploit clearing the evidence bar to reverse-engineer, where there is no source to read

20 no-exploit not reached Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read

21 secure-rule-match not reached A vulnerability class already blocked by an ARMR security rule

22 exploited-no-fix-or-poc not reached Somebody exploiting this CVE (a CISA or VulnCheck KEV listing, or a CISA verdict of active exploitation), with no fix, source code or PoC to build a rule from

23 below-action-threshold not reached Medium or Low severity, no CISA or VulnCheck KEV listing, no PoC clearing the evidence bar, no CISA verdict, no Oracle advisory

24 no-exploit-published not reached Exploit code for this candidate, published in a reviewed catalogue or a GitHub repository with 5 or more stars, or in use per CISA or VulnCheck; not only a CISA verdict, a forecast, or nothing at all

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