vulnerability

SiteCore Experience Platform (CVE-2021-42237): Pre-Auth Deserialization RCE

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 2, 2021
Added
Nov 11, 2021
Modified
May 1, 2025

Description

Sitecore XP 7.5 Initial Release to Sitecore XP 8.2 Update-7 is vulnerable to an insecure deserialization attack where it is possible to achieve remote command execution on the machine. No authentication or special configuration is required to exploit this vulnerability.

Solution

sitecore-experience-platform-upgrade-latest
Title
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