CVE-2025-34509

Sitecore XM and XP Hardcoded Credentials

CVSS 3.1 High 7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) and Experience Platform (XP) versions 10.1 to 10.1.4 rev. 011974 PRE, all versions of 10.2, 10.3 to 10.3.3 rev. 011967 PRE, and 10.4 to 10.4.1 rev. 011941 PRE contain a hardcoded user account. Unauthenticated and remote attackers can use this account to access administrative API over HTTP.

Key data

CVSS 3.1 High 7.5

Score published by VulnCheck in the CVE record.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack vector: Network
The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet.
Attack complexity: Low
No special conditions are needed. The attack can be repeated at will.
Privileges required: None
No account or privileges are needed.
User interaction: None
No action from any user is needed.
Scope: Unchanged
The impact stays within the vulnerable component.
Confidentiality impact: High
Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.
Integrity impact: None
No effect on the trustworthiness of data.
Availability impact: None
No effect on availability.

Metric	Value	What it means
Attack vector	Network	The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet.
Attack complexity	Low	No special conditions are needed. The attack can be repeated at will.
Privileges required	None	No account or privileges are needed.
User interaction	None	No action from any user is needed.
Scope	Unchanged	The impact stays within the vulnerable component.
Confidentiality impact	High	Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.
Integrity impact	None	No effect on the trustworthiness of data.
Availability impact	None	No effect on availability.

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EPSS

Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST: an estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days.

Score: 0.55874 (55.9% probability)
Percentile: 99.1%
Scores of: Nov 10, 2026
Model: v2026.06.15

CISA assessment as of Jun 18, 2025

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) decision points added by CISA.

Exploitation: Public proof of concept recorded by CISA
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Weakness (CWE)

CWE catalog version 5.0.

CWE-798Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Affected products

Products listed in the CVE record, as the CNA published them.

Sitecore Experience Manager
- affected: 10.4 up to before 10.4.1 rev. 011941 PRE
- affected: 10.3 up to before 10.3.3 rev. 011967 PRE
- affected: 10.2 up to before 10.3
- affected: 10.1 up to before 10.1.4 rev. 011974 PRE
Sitecore Experience Platform
- affected: 10.4 up to before 10.4.1 rev. 011941 PRE
- affected: 10.3 up to before 10.3.3 rev. 011967 PRE
- affected: 10.2 up to before 10.3
- affected: 10.1 up to before 10.1.4 rev. 011974 PRE

References

Links listed in the CVE record. They lead to other sites, which CubePath does not control.

labs.watchtowr.com/is-b-for-backdoor-pre-auth-rce-chain-in-…third-party-advisoryexploittechnical-description
support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=…vendor-advisory

Timeline

ID reservedApr 15, 2025
Record publishedJun 17, 2025
Record last updatedOct 29, 2026

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