CVE-2019-9874
Actively exploited. CVE-2019-9874 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-03-26) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2019-9874 is indexed in Nuclei. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
Sitecore CMS and Experience Platform (XP) contain a deserialization vulnerability in the Sitecore.Security.AntiCSRF module that allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a serialized .NET object in the HTTP POST parameter __CSRFTOKEN.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- An unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary code via a deserialization vulnerability in the AntiCSRF module.
- Who is affected
- Unauthenticated users interacting with Sitecore CMS and Experience Platform (XP) are affected.
- Urgency
- Remediation is critical due to active exploitation and the severity of the vulnerability.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of Sitecore CMS and Experience Platform (XP) to address the issue.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2019-9874 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- NucleiA nuclei-templates detection/PoC template exists for this CVE.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2019-9874: Sitecore CMS and Experience Platform (XP) Deserialization Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-03-26
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