CVE-2025-53693 (GCVE-0-2025-53693)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-03 12:36 – Updated: 2025-09-03 13:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
HTML Cache Poisoning through Unsafe Reflections
Summary
Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') vulnerability in Sitecore Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) allows Cache Poisoning.This issue affects Sitecore Experience Manager (XM): from 9.0 through 9.3, from 10.0 through 10.4; Experience Platform (XP): from 9.0 through 9.3, from 10.0 through 10.4.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-03 13:49 UTC
CWE
- CWE-470 - Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitecore | Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) |
Affected:
9.0 , ≤ 9.3
(semver)
Affected: 10.0 , ≤ 10.4 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Sitecore | Experience Platform (XP) |
Affected:
9.0 , ≤ 9.3
(semver)
Affected: 10.0 , ≤ 10.4 (semver) |
guessed |
Date Public
2025-09-03 11:00
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