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CVE-2025-2746

Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.172 Staging Sync Server Digest Password Authentication Bypass

Basic Information

CVE State
PUBLISHED
Reserved Date
March 24, 2025
Published Date
March 24, 2025
Last Updated
February 26, 2026
Vendor
Kentico
Product
Xperience
Description
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.
Tags
cisa nuclei_scanner

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.1

9.8 - CRITICAL

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC Information

Exploitation
active
Automatable
Yes
Technical Impact
total

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild
Yes (2026-06-01 10:42:30 UTC) Source

References

https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/ https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/kentico-xperience13-AuthBypass-wt-2025-0011 https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-sync-server-digest-password-authentication-bypass

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source Added Date
CVE 2026-06-01 10:42:30 UTC

Scanner Integrations

Scanner URL Date Detected
Nuclei https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-2746.yaml 2026-06-01 15:34:41 UTC

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Added to KEVIntel

  • Detected by Nuclei