CVE-2025-53690 — Sitecore Multiple Products Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
Overview
Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Experience Platform (XP), Experience Commerce (XC), and Managed Cloud contain a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability involving the use of default machine keys. This flaw allows attackers to exploit exposed ASP.NET machine keys to achieve remote code execution.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-53690
- Vulnerability
- Sitecore Multiple Products Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Sitecore
- Affected products
- Sitecore: Multiple Products
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2025-09-04
Remediation guidance
CVE-2025-53690 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Sitecore the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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