What is CVE-2025-2749?

CVE-2025-2749 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2025-03-24.

How severe is CVE-2025-2749?

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

Is CVE-2025-2749 known to be exploited?

Yes. CVE-2025-2749 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-04-20), indicating it is being actively exploited.

Path Traversal in Kentico Xperience

CVE-2025-2749

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2025-03-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.040 (90.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.040 · newest: 0.040 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Kentico Xperience — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)

This CVE is on the CISA KEV catalog, added on 2026-04-20. CISA KEV inclusion means CISA has confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; US federal agencies are required to remediate within a published due date.

BOD 22-01 due date: 2026-05-04.

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

References

labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain… (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit)
devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes (vendor-advisory, Patch, patch)
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-media-file-upload-authen… (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (US Government Resource)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-2749?: CVE-2025-2749 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2025-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2025-2749?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-2749 known to be exploited?: Yes. CVE-2025-2749 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-04-20), indicating it is being actively exploited.