Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.665
EPSS Ranking 98.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
Proposed Action
Kentico Xperience CMS contains an authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability that could allow an attacker to control administrative objects.
Ransomware Campaign
Unknown
References
- https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes
- https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/kentico-xperience13-AuthBypass-wt-2025-0011
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-sync-server-digest-password-authentication-bypass
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-2746
Products affected by CVE-2025-2746
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.165
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.166
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.167
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.168
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.169
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.170
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.171
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cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:13.0.172