xwiki-platform up to 16.4.6/16.10.4/17.1.x Password Hash private personal information

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A vulnerability was found in xwiki-platform up to 16.4.6/16.10.4/17.1.x. It has been rated as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component Password Hash Handler. The manipulation leads to private personal information. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-54124. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in xwiki-platform up to 16.4.6/16.10.4/17.1.x. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Password Hash Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a private personal information vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-359. The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the information is collected. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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 9.8-rc-1 through 16.4.6, 16.5.0-rc-1 through 16.10.4, and 17.0.0-rc-1 through 17.1.0, any user with editing rights can create an XClass with a database list property that references a password property. When adding an object of that XClass, the content of that password property is displayed. In practice, with a standard rights setup, this means that any user with an account on the wiki can access password hashes of all users, and possibly other password properties (with hashed or plain storage) that are on pages that the user can view. This issue is fixed in versions 16.4.7, 16.10.5 and 17.2.0-rc-1.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-54124 since 07/17/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1589 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 16.4.7, 16.10.5 or 17.2.0-rc-1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f2ca8649cba2ed3765061660bf5c7f801afa0b24 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1729). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Open Source xwiki

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• Content Management System

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• xwiki-platform

Version

• 16.4.0
• 16.4.1
• 16.4.2
• 16.4.3
• 16.4.4
• 16.4.5
• 16.4.6
• 16.10.0
• 16.10.1
• 16.10.2
• 16.10.3
• 16.10.4
• 17.0
• 17.1

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• open-source

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