CVE-2025-2746
KEVKentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability
9.8
CriticalPublished:
Last updated:
Source:disclosure@vulncheck.com
Analyzed
Weakness (CWE)
CVSS Vector
v3.1- Attack Vector
- Network
- Attack Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- None
- User Interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Description
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.
References
disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixesdisclosure@vulncheck.com
https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/kentico-xperience13-AuthBypass-wt-2025-0011disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-sync-server-digest-password-authentication-bypass134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-2746