CVE-2025-53690

Sitecore Products ViewState Deserialization Vulnerability

  • Critical 9.0
  • Exploited: added to CISA KEV 4 Sep 2025

Description

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.

Key facts

Published
3 Sep 2025
Last changed
26 Feb 2026
Assigned by
Wiz
KEV added
4 Sep 2025
KEV fix due
25 Sep 2025
EPSS
60.71% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 99.163% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)
SSVC (CISA)
Exploitation: active; Automatable: no; Technical impact: total

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

  • 9.0CVSS 3.1, Criticalfrom the CNA (Wiz)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What to do

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

Historical context and remediation

This reference retains the original CVE publication date. A recent record update does not mean a new attack occurred.

CAPEC-242 Code Injection (CNA impact statement)

Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

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Affected products

VendorProductVersions
SitecoreExperience Manager (XM)
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 0 up to and including 9.0 (affected)
SitecoreExperience Platform (XP)
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 0 up to and including 9.0 (affected)

Timeline

  1. 3 Sep 2025 Published
  2. 4 Sep 2025 CVE-2025-53690 added to CISA KEV
  3. 4 Sep 2025 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

References