CVE-2025-2749

Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Media File Upload Authenticated RCE

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Mar 24, 2025
Updated: Apr 21, 2026
Reserved: Mar 24, 2025

Description

An authenticated remote code execution in Kentico Xperience allows authenticated users Staging Sync Server to upload arbitrary data to path relative locations. This results in path traversal and arbitrary file upload, including content that can be executed server side leading to remote code execution.This issue affects Kentico Xperience through 13.0.178.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Affected Products

Product	Versions
XperienceKentico	13.0.178 and earlierAffected

References

https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/technical-descriptionexploit
https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixesvendor-advisorypatch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-media-file-upload-authenticated-rcethird-party-advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-2749government-resource

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