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CVE-2025-2747: Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Sync Server None Password Type Authentication Bypass

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Now (action score 98/100)

  • CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Oct 20, 2025). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Nov 10, 2025.
  • A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 97.1% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.8% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Patch today or shut off access. Until a fix is released, restrict access to the affected component and follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

An authentication bypass vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows authentication bypass via the Staging Sync Server component password handling for the server defined None type. Authentication bypass allows an attacker to control administrative objects.This issue affects Xperience through 13.0.178.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1KEVWeaponized No fix recorded
Published
Mar 24, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
97.1% · 99th percentile

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Action score

98

Now

Patch today or shut off access.

CVSS
39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV
30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS
29 / 30 · 97.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
active
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
—
CNA · VulnCheck
9.8
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Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct 20, 2025. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Nov 10, 2025.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
kenticoxperience

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • kentico xperienceup to 13.0.178 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 13.0.178affected

Same product

kentico: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • 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.KEV
    98Now
  • CVE-2025-2746Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.172 Staging Sync Server Digest Password Authentication BypassKEV
    91Now
  • 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/insta
    60This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-29287Apr 15, 2022 · Kentico CMS before 13.0.66 has an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability.
    19Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-32387Jul 18, 2022 · In Kentico before 13.0.66, attackers can achieve Denial of Service via a crafted request to the GetResource handler.
    30Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-2748Mar 24, 2025 · Kentico Xperience stored cross-site scripting in multiple-file upload functionality
    42Plan

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

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

  • Nuclei detection template ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Nuclei detection templateNuclei template CVE-2025-2747 —

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Published
  2. CISA KEV+209 d
  3. TodayNov 1, 2026+587 d
EPSS, last 120 days

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 researchers

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2025-27460 days apartKentico Xperience <= 13.0.172 Staging Sync Server Digest Password Authentication BypassKEV
    91Now

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

  • CVE-2025-27490 days apartKentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Media File Upload Authenticated RCEKEV
    59Plan

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.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

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