CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-2749
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Kentico Xperience Path Traversal Vulnerability — Kentico Kentico Xperience
Kentico Xperience contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated user's Staging Sync Server to upload arbitrary data to path relative locations.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-04-20
- Remediation due
- 2026-05-04
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- 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.
- Notes
- https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2749
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-03-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22, CWE-434
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• kentico xperience (<= 13.0.178)
Related
References
- https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes Patch
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-media-file-upload-authenticated-rce Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-2749 US Government Resource