Red Hat Lightwell has released org.owasp.esapi:esapi 2.3.0.0-rhlw-00005 with a backported security fix.
CVE-2025-5878: ESAPI esapi-java-legacy SQL Injection Defense Encoder.encodeForSQL special element
This patched artifact is a drop-in replacement for org.owasp.esapi:esapi 2.3.0.0 from Maven Central.