PT-2025-36627 · Maven · Org.Xwiki.Platform:Xwiki-Platform-Skin-Skinx

Published 2025-09-03 · Updated 2025-09-03

OSV

CVSS v4.0

9.3

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Impact

It's possible to get access and read configuration files by using URLs such as http://localhost:8080/bin/ssx/Main/WebHome?resource=../../WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg&minify=false.

This can apparently be reproduced on Tomcat instances.

Patches

This has been patched in 17.4.0-rc-1, 16.10.7.

Workarounds

There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
• Email us at Security Mailing List

Attribution

The vulnerability was reported by Gregor Neumann.

Fix

Relative Path Traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-23

Related Identifiers

GHSA-M63C-3RMG-R2CF

Affected Products

Org.Xwiki.Platform:Xwiki-Platform-Skin-Skinx

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55748 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-m63c-3rmg-r2cf · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform · Note
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-m63c-3rmg-r2cf · Note
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9e7b4c03f2143978d891109a17159f73d4cdd318#diff-ee78930a9ac5ea586179fe8ab88a5fd58e369d175927d1e88a0b4dbc3ebcbf1eR62 · Note
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23109 · Note