Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass (CVE-2025-2747)
Detects exploitation of CVE-2025-2747, an authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-288) in Kentico Xperience CMS. Attackers can access protected administrative or content management endpoints via alternate paths or channels without valid credentials, enabling unauthorized access to sensitive CMS functionality. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in CISA KEV.
Vulnerability Intelligence
KEV — Known ExploitedAffected Software
- Vendor
- Kentico
- Product
- Xperience CMS
Weakness (CWE)
Timeline
- Disclosed
- October 20, 2025
References & Proof of Concept
CVSS
What is CVE-2025-2747 Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass (CVE-2025-2747)?
Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass (CVE-2025-2747) (CVE-2025-2747) maps to the Initial Access and Privilege Escalation and Defense Evasion tactics — the adversary is trying to get into your network in MITRE ATT&CK.
This page provides production-ready detection logic for Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass (CVE-2025-2747), covering the data sources and telemetry it touches: IIS Web Logs, Azure Application Gateway Logs, Microsoft Sentinel W3CIISLog. The queries below are rated critical severity at medium confidence, and ship for 7 SIEM platforms — KQL, SPL, Elastic, QRadar, Sumo, YARA-L, LogScale.
MITRE ATT&CK
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(
W3CIISLog
| where csUriStem has_any ("/CMSPages/", "/CMSModules/", "/Admin/", "/KenticoCMS/", "/cms/", "/CMS/", "/cmspages/")
| where csUriStem has_any ("GetResource", "CMSFormControls", "GetDoc", "CMSDesk", "sitemanager", "SiteManager")
| where scStatus in (200, 201, 302) and csUsername in ("", "-", "anonymous")
| project TimeGenerated, Computer, csClientIP=c_ip, csMethod=cs_method, csUriStem=cs_uri_stem, csUriQuery=cs_uri_query, scStatus=sc_status, scBytes=sc_bytes, csUsername=cs_username, csUserAgent=cs_user_agent
),
(
AzureDiagnostics
| where Category == "ApplicationGatewayAccessLog"
| where requestUri_s has_any ("/CMSPages/", "/CMSModules/", "/Admin/", "/KenticoCMS/")
| where httpStatus_d in (200, 201, 302)
| project TimeGenerated, clientIP_s, requestUri_s, httpStatus_d, userAgent_s, host_s
)
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(1d) Detects unauthenticated or anonymously-authenticated HTTP requests to sensitive Kentico Xperience CMS administrative and module paths that return successful HTTP responses, which may indicate authentication bypass exploitation.
Data Sources
Required Tables
False Positives
- Legitimate public-facing CMS pages under /CMSPages/ that are intentionally unauthenticated
- Health check or monitoring probes accessing CMS resource endpoints
- CDN or reverse proxy pre-fetching static assets served through CMS module paths
- Automated site crawlers or SEO tools accessing publicly exposed CMS paths
Sigma rule & cross-platform mapping
The detection logic for Kentico Xperience CMS Authentication Bypass (CVE-2025-2747) (CVE-2025-2747) above is provided in a vendor-neutral
form so you can deploy it on any SIEM. The same logic is shipped here as native
KQL (Microsoft Sentinel / Defender), SPL (Splunk), Elastic (Elastic Security (EQL)), QRadar (IBM QRadar (AQL)), Sumo (Sumo Logic CSE), YARA-L (Google Chronicle / SecOps), LogScale (CrowdStrike LogScale (CQL)) queries. In Sigma terms, this detection targets the
following logsource:
logsource:
product: azure Browse the community-maintained Sigma rules for this technique:
Platform-specific guides for CVE-2025-2747
Testing Methodology
Validate this detection against 3 adversary techniques from Atomic Red Team. Each test below lists the behaviour to exercise and the telemetry you should expect to see. Executable commands and cleanup steps are available with Pro.
- Test 1Kentico CMS Unauthenticated Admin Path Access Simulation
Expected signal: IIS access logs will record HTTP GET requests to each tested path with the source IP of the test host; requests will appear with no authenticated username (cs_username = '-').
- Test 2Alternate Channel Authentication Bypass via Parameter Manipulation
Expected signal: Web server logs capture each variant request with full URI including query string; WAF logs may flag path traversal patterns in the query string.
- Test 3Post-Bypass Webshell Upload Simulation via CMS File Manager
Expected signal: Windows Security Event Log will show file creation event (Event ID 4663) for test_detection.aspx under the CMS web root; Sysmon Event ID 11 (FileCreate) will capture the new .aspx file creation with the IIS worker process (w3wp.exe) as the creator.
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