CVE-2025-2746

high-risk
Published 2025-03-24

An authentication bypass vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows authentication bypass via the Staging Sync Server password handling of empty SHA1 usernames in digest authentication. Authentication bypass allows an attacker to control administrative objects.This issue affects Xperience through 13.0.172.

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84.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 16% of all CVEs
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Kentico

References (5)

Patch https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/kentico-xperience13-AuthBypass-wt-2025-0011
Exploit https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rc...
Third Party Advisory https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-sync-server-diges...
US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-...
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 27/34 · High
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal