CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-53690
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Sitecore Multiple Products Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability — Sitecore Multiple Products
Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Experience Platform (XP), Experience Commerce (XC), and Managed Cloud contain a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability involving the use of default machine keys. This flaw allows attackers to exploit exposed ASP.NET machine keys to achieve remote code execution.
- Added to KEV
- 2025-09-04
- Remediation due
- 2025-09-25
- 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://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53690
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-10-18
- Assigner
- 9947ef80-c5d5-474a-bbab-97341a59000e
- CVSS 3.1 (9947ef80-c5d5-474a-bbab-97341a59000e)
- 9.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
Description
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) allows Code Injection.This issue affects Experience Manager (XM): through 9.0; Experience Platform (XP): through 9.0.
Affected configurations
• sitecore experience commerce (<= 9.0)
• sitecore experience manager (<= 9.0)
• sitecore experience platform (<= 9.0)
• sitecore managed cloud
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/viewstate-deserialization-zero-day-vulnerability Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-53690 US Government Resource