CVE-2025-54125
Published: 06 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-54125 is a high-severity Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor (CWE-359) vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 26.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
XWiki Platform Legacy Old Core and Old Core contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the XML export feature. Affected versions span 1.1 through 16.4.6, 16.5.0-rc-1 through 16.10.4, and 17.0.0-rc-1 through 17.1.0. When a page URL is accessed with the parameter ?xpage=xml, the export includes password and email properties stored on documents even when those properties are not literally named password or email, exposing data that should remain restricted.
Any user possessing view rights on a page can trigger the export without further authentication or interaction, resulting in unauthorized retrieval of sensitive credential and contact information stored in XWiki documents. The CVSS 8.7 rating reflects network-accessible, high-impact confidentiality loss with no required privileges or user interaction.
Official advisories and the accompanying patch direct administrators to upgrade to 16.4.7, 16.10.5, or 17.2.0-rc-1. As a temporary workaround, the file templates/xml.vm can be removed from the deployed WAR when XML export functionality is not required; the project notes that no core XWiki feature depends on this export mechanism. The referenced GitHub commit and XWIKI-22810 entries document the precise code change that prevents leakage of non-standard password and email fields.
EPSS rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.0252 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.0074, indicating a period of increased exploitation interest following public disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-23670
Vulnerability details
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. XWiki Platform Legacy Old Core and XWiki Platform Old Core versions 1.1 through 16.4.6, 16.5.0-rc-1 through 16.10.4 and 17.0.0-rc-1 through 17.1.0, the XML…
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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 is fixed in versions 16.4.7, 16.10.5 and 17.2.0-rc-1. To work around this issue, the file templates/xml.vm in the deployed WAR can be deleted if the XML isn't needed. There isn't any feature in XWiki itself that depends on the XML export.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Automated marking identifies private personal information in outputs, tangibly reducing the ability to exploit weaknesses that result in its unauthorized exposure.
Privacy-specific attributes and their controlled association directly reduce exposure of private personal information through missing or incorrect labeling.
Preventing nonpublic personal information from public posting reduces unauthorized exposure of private personal data.
The control detects and protects against mining of private personal information, reducing unauthorized exposure of PII.
Privacy literacy training directly targets preventing exposure of personal information through user mishandling.
Tracking locations of sensitive data and access users reduces risk of private personal information exposure.
PIA explicitly identifies PII collection/use/disclosure flows and drives mitigations that reduce the likelihood of unauthorized exposure of private personal information.
The control specifically requires architectures that minimize privacy risk when processing PII, directly addressing exposure of personal information.