CVE-2025-53690: Sitecore Multiple Products Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

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.

Required action (CISA)

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

Notes

https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53690

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-502. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53690
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog