CVE-2025-66473 PUBLISHED

XWiki's REST APIs don't enforce any limits, leading to unavailability and OOM in large wikis

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 02.12.2025 Published: 10.12.2025 Updated: 11.12.2025

XWiki is an open-source wiki software platform. Versions 16.10.10 and below, 17.0.0-rc-1 through 17.4.3 and 17.5.0-rc-1 through 17.6.0 contain a REST API which doesn't enforce any limits for the number of items that can be requested in a single request at the moment. Depending on the number of pages in the wiki and the memory configuration, this can lead to slowness and unavailability of the wiki. As an example, the /rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces resource returns all spaces on the wiki by default, which are basically all pages. This issue is fixed in versions 17.4.4 and 16.10.11.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor xwiki
Product xwiki-platform
Versions
  • Version < 16.10.11 is affected
  • Version >= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.4.4 is affected
  • Version >= 17.5.0-rc-1, < 17.7.0-rc-1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE