CVE-2025-53690
Sitecore Multiple Products Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 25 September 2025). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 51.09% probability · 99th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Listed 4 September 2025 · due 25 September 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-502
- Affected
- sitecore/experience commerce · sitecore/experience manager · sitecore/experience platform · sitecore/managed cloud
- Source
- 9947ef80-c5d5-474a-bbab-97341a59000e
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53690
References
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/viewstate-deserialization-zero-day-vulnerabilityExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-53690US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.