CVE-2025-24893: XWiki Platform allows remote code execution as guest via SolrSearchMacros request
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…
Published Feb 20, 2025 · Updated Oct 30, 2025
Affected packages
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 5.3-milestone-2, < 15.10.11
- Fixed in
- 15.10.11
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.4.1
- Fixed in
- 16.4.1
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
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.
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rr6p-3pfg-562j
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/67021db9b8ed26c2236a653269302a86bf01ef40
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/568447cad5172d97d6bbcfda9f6183689c2cf086/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-search/xwiki-platform-search-solr/xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui/src/main/resources/Main/SolrSearchMacros.xml#L955
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/67021db9b8ed26c2236a653269302a86bf01ef40/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/xwiki-platform-web-templates/src/main/resources/templates/macros.vm#L2824
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22149
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24893
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24893
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rr6p-3pfg-562j
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