CVE-2025-53690 PoC — Sitecore Products ViewState Deserialization Vulnerability

Description

Detection for CVE-2025-53690

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# CVE-2025-53690

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) allows Code Injection.This issue affects Experience Manager (XM): through 9.0; Experience Platform (XP): through 9.0.

## How does this detection method work?

This Nuclei template fetches sitecore.version.xml, extracts the first two digits of the version number from the body, builds a major.minor string, and matches if the page returns 200, contains “Sitecore Corporation,” and the version is 9.0 or lower.

## How do I run this script?

1. Download Nuclei from [here](https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei)
2. Copy the template to your local system
3. Run the following command: `nuclei -u https://yourHost.com -t template.yaml` 

### Example Output

<img width="807" height="252" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-04 at 20 55 48" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dd897b25-b757-488a-a7e3-13670c692a91" />


## References

- https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003865
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/viewstate-deserialization-zero-day-vulnerability


## Disclaimer

Use at your own risk, I will not be responsible for illegal activities you conduct on infrastructure you do not own or have permission to scan.

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