diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/crypt/EncryptionHeader.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/crypt/EncryptionHeader.java
index 9adec4d6e..2f10e98ed 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/crypt/EncryptionHeader.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/crypt/EncryptionHeader.java
@@ -16,15 +16,16 @@
 ==================================================================== */
 package org.apache.poi.poifs.crypt;
 
-import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
-import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DocumentInputStream;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
 
-import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+
+import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
 import org.apache.poi.EncryptedDocumentException;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DocumentInputStream;
+import org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndianConsts;
+import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
 
 /**
  * Reads and processes OOXML Encryption Headers
@@ -69,18 +70,24 @@ public class EncryptionHeader {
 
         is.readLong(); // skip reserved
 
-        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
-
-        while (true) {
-            char c = (char) is.readShort();
-
-            if (c == 0) {
-                break;
+        // CSPName may not always be specified
+        // In some cases, the sale value of the EncryptionVerifier has the details
+        is.mark(LittleEndianConsts.INT_SIZE+1);
+        int checkForSalt = is.readInt();
+        is.reset();
+        
+        if (checkForSalt == 16) {
+        	cspName = "";
+        } else {
+            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+            while (true) {
+                char c = (char) is.readShort();
+                if (c == 0) break;
+                builder.append(c);
             }
-
-            builder.append(c);
+            cspName = builder.toString();
         }
-        cspName = builder.toString();
+        
         cipherMode = MODE_ECB;
         keySalt = null;
     }
diff --git a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/AllXWPFTests.java b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/AllXWPFTests.java
index b1a9983f7..12b768bba 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/AllXWPFTests.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/AllXWPFTests.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ public final class AllXWPFTests {
 
 	public static Test suite() {
 		TestSuite result = new TestSuite(AllXWPFTests.class.getName());
+		result.addTestSuite(TestXWPFBugs.class);
 		result.addTestSuite(TestXWPFDocument.class);
 		result.addTestSuite(TestXWPFWordExtractor.class);
 		result.addTestSuite(TestXWPFHeaderFooterPolicy.class);
diff --git a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/TestXWPFBugs.java b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/TestXWPFBugs.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0286f671
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/TestXWPFBugs.java
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package org.apache.poi.xwpf;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+import org.apache.poi.POIDataSamples;
+import org.apache.poi.hssf.record.crypto.Biff8EncryptionKey;
+import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.crypt.Decryptor;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.crypt.EncryptionHeader;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.crypt.EncryptionInfo;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.NPOIFSFileSystem;
+import org.apache.poi.xwpf.extractor.XWPFWordExtractor;
+import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
+
+public class TestXWPFBugs extends TestCase {
+	/**
+	 * A word document that's encrypted with non-standard
+	 *  Encryption options, and no cspname section. See bug 53475
+	 */
+	public void test53475() throws Exception {
+		try {
+    		Biff8EncryptionKey.setCurrentUserPassword("solrcell");
+    		File file = POIDataSamples.getDocumentInstance().getFile("bug53475-password-is-solrcell.docx");
+    		NPOIFSFileSystem filesystem = new NPOIFSFileSystem(file, true);
+    		
+    		// Check the encryption details
+    		EncryptionInfo info = new EncryptionInfo(filesystem);
+    		assertEquals(128, info.getHeader().getKeySize());
+    		assertEquals(EncryptionHeader.ALGORITHM_AES_128, info.getHeader().getAlgorithm());
+    		assertEquals(EncryptionHeader.HASH_SHA1, info.getHeader().getHashAlgorithm());
+    		
+    		// Check it can be decoded
+    		Decryptor d = Decryptor.getInstance(info);		
+    		assertTrue("Unable to process: document is encrypted", d.verifyPassword("solrcell"));
+    
+    		// Check we can read the word document in that
+    	    InputStream dataStream = d.getDataStream(filesystem);
+    	    OPCPackage opc = OPCPackage.open(dataStream);
+    	    XWPFDocument doc = new XWPFDocument(opc);
+    	    XWPFWordExtractor ex = new XWPFWordExtractor(doc);
+    	    String text = ex.getText();
+    	    assertNotNull(text);
+    	    assertEquals("This is password protected Word document.", text.trim());
+    	    ex.close();
+		} finally {
+			Biff8EncryptionKey.setCurrentUserPassword(null);
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/test-data/document/bug53475-password-is-solrcell.docx b/test-data/document/bug53475-password-is-solrcell.docx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2723d5654
Binary files /dev/null and b/test-data/document/bug53475-password-is-solrcell.docx differ