Threats / Kentico / CVE-2025-2746
CVE-2025-2746
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Kentico Xperience CMS vulnerability
Kentico Xperience CMS contains an authentication bypass vulnerability allowing attackers to control administrative objects through an alternate path or channel.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An unauthenticated or low-privileged attacker can bypass authentication mechanisms in Kentico Xperience CMS to gain administrative control. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and carries high exploitation probability.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
3 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-10-20).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.57992 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Kentico, Xperience CMS. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-288 Auth Bypass via Alternate Path — weakness family: Authentication.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
03
Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I discover an alternate authentication path that does not enforce proper credential validation.
Business
Administrative access is compromised without legitimate credentials, enabling unauthorized system control.
2
Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I use this bypass to access administrative functions and modify CMS configuration, content, and user accounts.
Business
Attackers gain persistent control over website content, user data, and system settings.
3
Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I establish backdoor access and escalate privileges to maintain long-term control of the CMS infrastructure.
Business
The organization loses operational control of its web presence and faces potential data theft or defacement.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
05
Coverage & confidence
— what we know, and what we don’tEstablished (cited)
Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden
Disclosure & credit2
Catalogued by VulnCheckCNA
Credited with finding itPiotr Bazydlo (watchTowr)finder