Vulnerability record

CVE-2025-53690

Sitecore Multiple Products Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

Severity: CriticalExploitation: Exploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run Multiple Products, fix it now.

CISA 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.

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by Sep 25, 2025.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

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.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

Products affected by this vulnerability, with versions and the source of each entry
ProductVendorSource
Multiple ProductsSitecoreKEV

Sources: KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Version details have not been published yet.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2025-53690 scored CVSS 9.0: Sitecore Multiple Products, Sitecore Multiple Products Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched Multiple Products systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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References

  • support.sitecore.com https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865
  • nvd.nist.gov https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53690
  • cloud.google.com https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/viewstate-deserialization-zero-day-vulnerability
  • cisa.gov https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-53690