Path Traversal Vulnerability in Sitecore Experience Manager and Experience Platform
CVE-2025-34510

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Sitecore

Status
Experience Manager
Experience Platform
Experience Commerce
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 June 2025

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC📰 News Worthy

What is CVE-2025-34510?

Sitecore Experience Manager and Experience Platform versions 9.0 to 9.3 and 10.0 to 10.4 are susceptible to a Zip Slip vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a remote, authenticated attacker to upload a specially crafted ZIP archive that includes a path traversal sequence. By exploiting this flaw, attackers can write arbitrary files to the server, potentially leading to unauthorized code execution. Organizations using affected Sitecore versions should take immediate action to mitigate this risk.

Affected Version(s)

Experience Commerce 9.0 <= 9.3

Experience Commerce 10.0 <= 10.4

Experience Manager 9.0 <= 9.3

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2025-34510 - Proof of Concept

News Articles

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Is b For Backdoor? Pre-Auth RCE Chain In Sitecore Experience Platform

Welcome to June! We’re back—this time, we're exploring Sitecore’s Experience Platform (XP), demonstrating a pre-auth RCE chain that we reported to Sitecore in February 2025. We’ve spent a bit of time recently looking at CMS’s given the basic fact that they represent attractive targets for

References

https://labs.watchtowr.com/is-b-for-backdoor-pre-auth-rce...
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https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&syspar...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • đź“°

    First article discovered by watchTowr Labs

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • đź‘ľ

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Piotr Bazydlo of watchTowr
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CVE-2025-34510 : Path Traversal Vulnerability in Sitecore Experience Manager and Experience Platform