# CVE-2025-55747: XWiki-Platform - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-55747 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-55747

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** XWiki-Platform
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-23 (Relative Path Traversal)
- **Tags:** wiki

## Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In versions  6.1-milestone-2 through 16.10.6, configuration files are accessible through the webjars API. This is fixed in version 16.10.7.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-55747](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55747) is a critical vulnerability in XWiki Platform versions 6.1-milestone-2 through 16.10.6, where configuration files are exposed via the webjars API. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to access sensitive configuration data, potentially leading to further compromise of the application or underlying infrastructure.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 26th of November 2025.

According to CrowdSec data, while opportunistic exploitation dominates, a portion of threat actors trying to exploit CVE-2025-55747 apply basic targeting methods such as port or service detection. This indicates emerging patterns of selective targeting.
Additionally, according to week-over-week analysis by CrowdSec, exploitation of CVE-2025-55747 is surging. Attack volumes are spiking well above historical norms, indicating widespread and escalating interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-55747 is currently experiencing high visibility and active exploitation across the internet.

Attackers exploit the `/xwiki/webjars/` endpoint with encoded directory traversal sequences (e.g., `%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2FWEB-INF%2Fxwiki.cfg`) to access sensitive configuration files such as `xwiki.cfg`.

## Timeline

- 2025-09-03: CVE Published. CVE-2025-55747 is published to NVD.
- 2025-11-26: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-55747 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-12-15: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-55747 for the first time.

## References

- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19350
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9e7b4c03f2143978d891109a17159f73d4cdd318#diff-45ea9c87d5fb68cd5db0da7f78cf25e76f1325f5fe56e21618b21786fc706236R80-R81
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-qww7-89xh-x7m7
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-55747.yaml

## Live exploitation data

The [Live Exploit Tracker page](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-55747) follows observed exploitation activity for CVE-2025-55747. [Request an API key](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/request-api-key) for full access to its exploitation timeline, attacking IP addresses and blocklists.