XWiki Platform allows remote code execution as guest via SolrSearchMacros request

CVE-2025-24893 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Impact

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.

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 15.10.11, 16.4.1 and 16.5.0RC1.

Workarounds

This line in Main.SolrSearchMacros can be edited to match the rawResponse macro defined here with a content type of application/xml, instead of simply outputting the content of the feed.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22149
  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/67021db9b8ed26c2236a653269302a86bf01ef40

Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by John Kwak for Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
critical
Advisory on GitHub
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Repository advisory
Open repository advisory ↗
Source code
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Published (advisory)
2025-02-20 20:16:21 UTC
Updated
2025-10-30 19:54:05 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2025-02-20 20:16:21 UTC
NVD published
2025-02-20

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
93.96% 99.88%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
9.8 3.1 —
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-rr6p-3pfg-562j ↗
CVE CVE-2025-24893 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CWE-95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

Affected packages (2)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui >= 5.3-milestone-2, < 15.10.11 15.10.11 —
maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.1 16.4.1 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence