Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.159 Form Validation Stored XSS
A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows attackers to inject malicious scripts via form validation rule configuration. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute malicious scripts that will run in users' browsers.
- Published
- Dec 18, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 5th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-79
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Report tools
Action score
20
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 20 / 40 · 5.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · VulnCheck
- 5.1
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| kentico | xperience | cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- kentico xperienceup to 13.0.159 inclusive
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Kentico Xperience
- up to and including 13.0.159affected
Same product
kentico: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2025-2747Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Sync Server None Password Type Authentication BypassKEV98Now
- CVE-2019-10068An issue was discovered in Kentico 12.0.x before 12.0.15, 11.0.x before 11.0.48, 10.0.x before 10.0.52, and 9.x versions.KEV98Now
- CVE-2025-2746Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.172 Staging Sync Server Digest Password Authentication BypassKEV91Now
- CVE-2017-17736Kentico 9.0 before 9.0.51 and 10.0 before 10.0.48 allows remote attackers to obtain Global Administrator access by visiting CMSInstall/insta60This week
- CVE-2025-2749Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Media File Upload Authenticated RCEKEV59Plan
- CVE-2025-2748Kentico Xperience stored cross-site scripting in multiple-file upload functionality42Plan
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Bluesoftfinder
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2025-2748269 days apartKentico Xperience stored cross-site scripting in multiple-file upload functionality42Plan
- CVE-2025-559117 days apartStored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Kentico Xperience 1330Monitor
- CVE-2025-32369256 days apartKentico Xperience before 13.0.181 allows authenticated users to distribute malicious content (for stored XSS) via certain interactions with 21Monitor
- CVE-2020-368890 days apartKentico Xperience <= 12.0.90 Administration Interface Stored XSS20Monitor
- CVE-2020-368910 days apartKentico Xperience <= 12.0.49 File Upload Stored XSS20Monitor
- CVE-2023-537360 days apartKentico Xperience <= 13.0.120 Administration Interface Reflected XSS20Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- P
- Scope
- X
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
nvd-secondary
Root cause
User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-79 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;Fixed
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
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We use this product, ask for helpChange log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
- devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-form-validation-stored-xss
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.