CVE-2025-2746

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.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes	Patch
https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/kentico-xperience13-AuthBypass-wt-2025-0011	Third Party Advisory
https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-sync-server-digest-password-authentication-bypass	Third Party Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-2746	US Government Resource

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

06 Nov 2025, 13:58

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		() https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-sync-server-digest-password-authentication-bypass - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2025-03-24 19:15

Updated : 2025-11-06 13:58

NVD link : CVE-2025-2746

Mitre link : CVE-2025-2746

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-2746

JSON object : View

Products Affected

kentico

xperience

CWE

CWE-288

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

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