# CVE-2024-11627: Auth bypass in Sitefinity

> Attackers can hijack user sessions due to insufficient session expiration in Progress Sitefinity, leading to unauthorized account access.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 7 Jan 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-prq9-w4j8-gg56

## What is CVE-2024-11627?

CVE-2024-11627 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Progress Sitefinity, published on 7 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

: Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in Progress Sitefinity allows : Session Fixation.This issue affects Sitefinity: from 4.0 through 14.4.8142, from 15.0.8200 through 15.0.8229, from 15.1.8300 through 15.1.8327, from 15.2.8400 through 15.2.8421.

Weakness: CWE-613 (DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11627?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Progress Sitefinity.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-11627?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11627 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-11627 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11627 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Progress Sitefinity

- [CVE-2017-9248](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9248/): Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX and Sitefinity Cryptographic Weakness (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-7312](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-7312/): CWE‑522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials in web services in Progress Sitefinity (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-7198](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-7198/): CWE-284: Improper Access Control in web services in Progress Sitefinity (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-29375](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-29375/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-17392](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17392/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-11627 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-11627 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Progress Sitefinity, published on 7 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11627 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Progress Sitefinity. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11627/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11627/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11627
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11627
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11627

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11627/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.