CVE-2025-2749 (GCVE-0-2025-2749)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-24 18:18 – Updated: 2025-12-17 19:33
VLAI?
Title
Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Media File Upload Authenticated RCE
Summary
An authenticated remote code execution in Kentico Xperience allows authenticated users Staging Sync Server to upload arbitrary data to path relative locations. This results in path traversal and arbitrary file upload, including content that can be executed server side leading to remote code execution.This issue affects Kentico Xperience through 13.0.178.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
  • CWE-434 - Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kentico Xperience Affected: 0 , ≤ 13.0.178 (custom)
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Credits
Piotr Bazydlo (watchTowr)
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