CMS Sitecore patches critical zero-day flaw


Popular CMS platform Sitecore has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability found to be being abused in cyberattacks. Security researchers from Mandiant observed threat actors exploiting a zero-day flaw to deploy malware, as well as other legitimate software.

The flaw stemmed from the use of sample ASP.NET machine keys published in old deployment guides (pre-2017), and is now tracked as CVE-2025-53690. It was given a severity score of 9.0/10 (critical).

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Source: TechRadar News


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