What is CVE-2019-6242?

CVE-2019-6242 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2019-02-08.

How severe is CVE-2019-6242?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Kentico Xperience

CVE-2019-6242

Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuration page. NOTE: the vendor considers this a best-practice violation but not a vulnerability. The vendor plans to fix it at a future time

Published 2019-02-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (67.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 67.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Kentico Xperience — versions 10.0.42

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

gist.github.com/boatpavaris/cff51e52a96fdde8215f71a3315703c2 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-6242?: CVE-2019-6242 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2019-02-08.
How severe is CVE-2019-6242?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.