CVE-2025-53690 (GCVE-0-2025-53690)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-03 20:04
Modified
2025-10-21 22:45
Severity ?
9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Summary
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) allows Code Injection.This issue affects Experience Manager (XM): through 9.0; Experience Platform (XP): through 9.0.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) Version: 0   ≤ 9.0
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
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Date added: 2025-09-04

Due date: 2025-09-25

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.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53690

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