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  "crds_version": "0.1",
  "kind": "base",
  "id": "crds:cve-2025-2749",
  "revision": 1,
  "title": "Kentico Xperience — staging upload escapes into code execution",
  "summary": "Kentico Xperience through 13.0.178 lets an account with staging sync rights upload files to paths of its own choosing, including places where the server will execute them — turning a content sync feature into remote code execution.",
  "source_type": "cve",
  "severity": "high",
  "cvss": {
    "score": 7.2,
    "vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "version": "3.1"
  },
  "epss": 0.03986,
  "exploitation": {
    "known_exploited": true,
    "exploit_available": true,
    "attack_complexity": "low",
    "kev_added": "2026-04-20",
    "prerequisites": "An account with Staging Sync Server rights on the Kentico instance."
  },
  "remediation": {
    "patch_available": true
  },
  "mitre_attack": [
    "T1190",
    "T1505.003"
  ],
  "kill_chain": "initial_access",
  "recommended_action": "Apply the Kentico hotfix for your 13.x build now; then check for staging accounts nobody created and for scripts sitting under the web root.",
  "confidence": "high",
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      "source": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2749",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-24T08:51:39.744Z",
      "confidence": "high",
      "extractor": "scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1"
    },
    {
      "fields": [
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        "exploitation.kev_added"
      ],
      "source": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-24T08:51:39.744Z",
      "confidence": "high",
      "extractor": "scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1"
    },
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      ],
      "source": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-2749",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-24T08:51:39.744Z",
      "confidence": "high",
      "extractor": "scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1"
    },
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      ],
      "source": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2749",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-24T08:51:39.744Z",
      "confidence": "high",
      "extractor": "claude-code"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "cve",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2749",
      "label": "NVD record"
    },
    {
      "type": "cisa",
      "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog",
      "label": "CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog"
    },
    {
      "type": "vendor_advisory",
      "url": "https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes"
    },
    {
      "type": "exploit",
      "url": "https://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/"
    },
    {
      "type": "writeup",
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kentico-xperience-staging-media-file-upload-authenticated-rce"
    }
  ],
  "published_at": "2025-03-24T19:15:52.400Z",
  "issued_at": "2026-09-24T08:51:39.744Z",
  "tags": [
    "kentico",
    "xperience",
    "cms",
    "path-traversal",
    "file-upload",
    "kev"
  ]
}