# CVE-2025-2749: Kentico Xperience Path Traversal

> Authenticated attackers can exploit path traversal in the Staging Sync Server to upload arbitrary files, leading to remote code execution.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Yes, since 20 Apr 2026 (CISA KEV)
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 21 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g53h-cfhr-24hw

## What is CVE-2025-2749?

CVE-2025-2749 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, published on 24 Mar 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type), CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2749?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Kentico Xperience.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-2749?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2749 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 4 May 2026.

## Is CVE-2025-2749 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2025-2749 in the wild since at least 20 Apr 2026.

## Other vulnerabilities in Kentico Xperience

- [CVE-2025-2746](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2746/): Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-2747](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2747/): Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2019-10068](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-10068/): Kentico Xperience Deserialization of Untrusted Data (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-17736](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17736/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-12102](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-12102/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-2749 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-2749 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kentico Xperience, published on 24 Mar 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2025-2749 in the wild since at least 20 Apr 2026.

Affected product: Kentico Xperience. 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-2025-2749/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2749/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2749
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2749
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2749

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2749/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.