`CVE-2025-52472`

Severity	9.3 Critical CVSS 4.0
Fixed in	`17.4.2`, `16.10.9`
Weakness	SQL injection (CWE-89)
Published	6 Oct 2025
Updated	3 Nov 2026

Description

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.

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 · earliest 2025-11-27.
CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Nuclei.
EPSS 2.4% chance in 30 days

VulnCheck KEV

Exploitation evidence from VulnCheck Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (VulnCheck KEV), used under VulnCheck's community terms. View CVE-2025-52472 in VulnCheck (free account).

Evidence	Source	Detail	Date
Reported exploitation	app.crowdsec.net	/cti/cve-explorer/CVE-2025-52472	2025-11-27

Evidence

Source

Detail

Date

Reported exploitation

app.crowdsec.net

/cti/cve-explorer/CVE-2025-52472

2025-11-27

Index	Artifact	Stars	First seen
Nuclei	XWiki - HQL Injection

Index

Artifact

Stars

First seen

Nuclei

XWiki - HQL 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 search API through the orderField parameter, reachable unauthenticated. The SQL rule does not detect SQL injection through Hibernate HQL queries (PM-79). Reproduced on XWiki 16.10.8 with PostgreSQL: an orderField payload that stays valid HQL injects or 1=1 and returns every page, with no event from the SQL rule.

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 17.0.0-rc-1 17.4.2 unbounded

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server 4.3-milestone-1 16.10.9 unbounded

Package	Introduced	Fixed	Last affected
`org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server`	17.0.0-rc-1	`17.4.2`	unbounded
`org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server`	4.3-milestone-1	`16.10.9`	unbounded

Products and versions

1 product, 2 version entries

Source	Vendor	Product	Scheme	Affected versions
osv	org.xwiki.platform	xwiki-platform-rest-server	generic	≥ 4.3 and ＜ 16.10.9 · ≥ 17.0.0 and ＜ 17.4.2

Source

Vendor

Product

Scheme

Affected versions

osv

org.xwiki.platform

xwiki-platform-rest-server

generic

≥ 4.3 and ＜ 16.10.9 · ≥ 17.0.0 and ＜ 17.4.2

References

URL	Tags
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-gprp-h92g-gc2h	WEB
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/743ebf8696ffa55161ed2c5ecf26b09f69e6bcf1	WEB
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/a45eca2af772abb7324e56d7fd2df1ac937bc445	WEB
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform	PACKAGE
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23247	WEB

URL

Timeline

Published	2025-10-06	By the CVE Program.
VulnCheck KEV: earliest evidence	2025-11-27	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	2026-10-09	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.
Classification created	2026-11-13	First commit adding this CVE's research note.

Published

2025-10-06

By the CVE Program.

VulnCheck KEV: earliest evidence

2025-11-27

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

2026-10-09

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.

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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