GHSA-xq3r-2qv5-vqqmCritical

XWiki Platform has path traversal via resources parameter in ssx and jsx endpoints when using leading slash

Published
May 26, 2026
Last Modified
May 26, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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 18.0.0-rc-1, 17.10.3, 17.4.9, 16.10.17.

Workarounds

There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3547
  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/commit/a979cafd89f6a9c9c0b9ab19744d672df64429bf

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Attribution

The vulnerability was reported by Michał Kołek.

🎯 Affected products4

  • maven/org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-classloader-api:>= 4.2-milestone-2, < 16.10.17
  • maven/org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-classloader-api:>= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.4.9
  • maven/org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-classloader-api:>= 17.5.0, < 17.10.3
  • maven/org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-classloader-api:>= 18.0.0-rc-1, < 18.1.0-rc-1

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