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CVE-2025-2747: Kentico Xperience staging auth bypass

Critical CVSS 9.8 CISA KEV

Remediation summary

Recommended action
CVE-2025-2747 is CISA KEV Kentico leftover. NVD CPE last-affects including 13.0.178. Vendor names 13.0.178. 13.0.178 is not an NVD exclude.
Affected evidence
1 source affected-product statement
Priority
Known exploited (CISA KEV); Critical severity; CVSS 9.8
Evidence checked

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What is CVE-2025-2747?

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.

CVE
CVE-2025-2747
Source title
Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability
Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE published
2025-03-24
Source updated
2026-06-17T09:07:33Z
Catalog checked
2026-08-24T07:01:48Z
CISA KEV
Known exploited
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-288
CNA / source
disclosure@vulncheck.com
Record status
Analyzed
Catalog quality
curated

Known exploitation and required action

CISA lists CVE-2025-2747 in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Treat this as direct exploitation evidence when prioritizing the change.

CISA entry
Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability
Vendor / project
Kentico
Product
Xperience CMS
Date added
2025-10-20
CISA due date
2025-11-10
Known ransomware use
Unknown

CISA required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

The recorded CISA due date is a remediation deadline for covered U.S. federal agencies; other organizations can use it as an urgency signal.

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Stable, source-backed guidance

CVE-2025-2747: Kentico Xperience staging auth bypass

This product-specific workflow preserves source-linked remediation guidance for CVE-2025-2747. Confirm live vendor guidance before changing production.

Kentico Xperience content staging has an authorization-bypass flaw. This ID has no GHSA. NVD is Analyzed. Live NVD CPE last-affects including 13.0.178. Kentico names 13.0.177 and lower as affected and 13.0.178 as fixed, and recommends the latest hotfix. 13.0.178 is not an NVD exclude floor. This page stays stable because Kentico names a single hotfix, with the NVD including- 13.0.178 split recorded.

Do not invent a later 13.0.179 floor. Do not prove exposure with crafted staging requests.

When to use it

  • Inventory shows Kentico Xperience 13.0.177 or lower (vendor affected window). NVD still last-affects including 13.0.178, but that listing is not the vendor-affected pin.

Inputs

  • Xperience version and https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes.

Affected versions

  • Vulnerable / NVD CPE: Xperience last-affects including 13.0.178. Live NVD has one CPE row.
  • Fixed / NVD CPE: none. There is no GHAD first_patched and no exclude.
  • Fixed / vendor prose: Kentico names 13.0.178, or a later Kentico-named hotfix.
  • Do not invent: treat leftover 13.0.178 as an NVD exclude, or invent 13.0.179.
  • CISA KEV: yes.

Remediation strategy

  • Upgrade every 13.0.177-or-lower instance to vendor 13.0.178 or the current Kentico hotfix. That is the vendor-named stop, not an NVD exclude.
  • Record that NVD last-affects including 13.0.178, so 13.0.178 is vendor-fixed and still NVD-listed. Prefer a later Kentico hotfix when one exists if the goal is to leave the NVD including row.
  • Recheck the Kentico hotfix page and NVD before treating 13.0.178 as NVD-clean.
  • Do not roll back into vendor-affected 13.0.177 or lower.

Verification

  • Xperience reports vendor 13.0.178 or a later named hotfix for the vendor-affected 13.0.177-or-lower window.
  • Operator notes cite that NVD last-affects including 13.0.178 and that the vendor hotfix is not an NVD exclude. Do not treat 13.0.178 as NVD-clean.
  • Tests never send crafted staging requests.

Rollback and recovery

Prefer forward recovery to another Kentico-named 13.0 hotfix. If an operational rollback restores 13.0.177 or lower, isolate the staging endpoint. A rollback that lands on 13.0.178 stays vendor-named-fixed and still NVD-listed.

Output contract

  • Change request upgrading vendor-affected Xperience to 13.0.178 or later after the NVD including-13.0.178 split.
  • TRIAGE.md when this repository does not own Xperience.

Related recipes

References

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Affected products and version ranges

  • Kentico / Xperience
    • Affected: versions 0 through 13.0.178 inclusive (custom).
    • Affected-status source: disclosure@vulncheck.com.

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Bounded remediation workflow

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Matched pattern: Authentication bypass and missing authentication

How to check exposure for CVE-2025-2747

  • Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
  • Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.

Temporary containment

  • Disable the affected login mode or interface and require access through a trusted identity-aware gateway or private network.

How to remediate CVE-2025-2747

  • Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
  • Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.

How to verify the remediation

  • Verify every protected operation rejects missing, invalid, expired, replayed, and wrong-audience credentials consistently.
  • Confirm session invalidation and credential rotation reached all replicas, caches, gateways, and long-lived connections.

Stop and triage conditions

  • Stop if any protected path lacks an explicit, testable authentication decision.
  • Switch to incident response if unauthorized sessions or unexplained administrative access are identified.

Required output

Return a reviewer-ready minimal patch with exposure evidence, authoritative fixed-version evidence, regression tests, deployed-artifact verification, rollback notes, and source links; otherwise return TRIAGE.md with the blocking decision and owner.

Safety boundary

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References and evidence

Cite this CVE record

Security Recipes. “CVE-2025-2747: Kentico Xperience staging auth bypass” Last updated . Canonical URL: https://security-recipes.ai/cve/CVE-2025-2747/.

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