CVE-2025-53689
This High severity XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability was introduced in versions 7.13 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.8 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H allows an authenticated attacker to access local and remote content which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction. Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: * Confluence Data Center and Server 10.1: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.1.2 See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives). The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Blind XXE Vulnerabilities in jackrabbit-spi-commons and jackrabbit-core in Apache Jackrabbit < 2.23.2 due to usage of an unsecured document build to load privileges. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 2.20.17 (Java 8), 2.22.1 (Java 11) or 2.23.2 (Java 11, beta versions), which fix this issue. Earlier versions (up to 2.20.16) are not supported anymore, thus users should update to the respective supported version.
EPSS 0.21% · 43.8th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Atlassian | Confluence Data Center | |
| Atlassian | Confluence Server |
Exploit Intelligence
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-53689 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-53689 (circl-sighting)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/14/1 (circl)
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/5pf9n76ny13pzzk765og2h3gxdxw7p24 (circl)
Timeline
- Jul 14, 2025 CVE Published
- Jul 14, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jul 14, 2025 PoC Published
- Jul 14, 2025 PoC Published
- Jul 23, 2025 EPSS Score
- Aug 2, 2025 EPSS Score
- Aug 11, 2025 EPSS Score
- Aug 20, 2025 EPSS Score
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- Sep 17, 2025 EPSS Score
- Sep 26, 2025 EPSS Score