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CVE-2025-2749: Kentico Xperience Path Traversal Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2026-04-20
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• Kentico Xperience: through 13.0.178

References

• https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes
• 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-media-file-upload-authenticated-rce
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-2749

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