CVE-2025-2747 (GCVE-0-2025-2747)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-24 18:17 – Updated: 2025-11-19 18:33
VLAI? CISA
Summary
An authentication bypass vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows authentication bypass via the Staging Sync Server component password handling for the server defined None type. Authentication bypass allows an attacker to control administrative objects.This issue affects Xperience through 13.0.178.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kentico Xperience Affected: 0 , ≤ 13.0.178 (custom)
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Credits
Piotr Bazydlo (watchTowr)
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2025-10-20

Due date: 2025-11-10

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2747

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