# CVE-2025-66473: XWiki's REST APIs don't enforce any limits, leading to unavailability and OOM in large wikis

- Also known as: GHSA-CC84-Q3V3-MHGF
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 16.10.11, 17.4.4, 17.7.0-rc-1
- Published: 2025-12-10 · Updated: 2025-12-11

## Affected

- xwiki xwiki-platform: fixed in 16.10.11; from 17.0.0-rc-1, fixed in 17.4.4; from 17.5.0-rc-1, fixed in 17.7.0-rc-1
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server (Maven): fixed in 16.10.11
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server (Maven): from 17.0.0-rc-1, fixed in 17.4.4
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server (Maven): from 17.5.0-rc-1, fixed in 17.7.0-rc-1

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on xwiki xwiki-platform, org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server, upgrade to a fixed version (16.10.11, 17.4.4, 17.7.0-rc-1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-cc84-q3v3-mhgf
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/e3c47745195fb445b054537be86f5c01ee69558b
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23355

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