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CVE-2025-54236 — community-edition

CRITICAL

CVE-2025-54236 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.1) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in magento/community-edition. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-10-24) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

Adobe Commerce | Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)

Also known asGHSA-wh92-6q6g-px7j
Published
Updated
Affected
11 pkgs
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
1 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 23, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-10-24. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-11-14.
  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
  • A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-54236.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
94.7%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Very High Risk+0.13%
Lower risk than most CVEs100th percentile — riskier than 100% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
48.2%65.5%82.7%100.0%59.4%94.7%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2025-54236 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

11 pkgs affected
🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition+3 more

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.9-alpha2, 2.4.8-p2, 2.4.7-p7, 2.4.6-p12, 2.4.5-p14, 2.4.4-p15 and earlier are affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. A successful attacker can abuse this to achieve session takeover, increasing the confidentiality and integrity impact to high. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Affected Packages

11 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-editionall versionsNo fix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-editionall versionsNo fix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.4.6-p1No fix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-editionall versionsNo fix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.4.9-alpha1No fix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-editionall versionsNo fix

Affected Products

3 products · 152 configurations
Application
commerceadobe
6 versions
2.4.42.4.52.4.62.4.72.4.82.4.9
Application
commerce b2badobe
5 versions
1.3.31.3.41.4.21.5.21.5.3
Application
magentoadobe
5 versions
2.4.52.4.62.4.72.4.82.4.9
Exploits & PoCs
1

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

wubinworks/magento2-session-reaper-patch

Patch for CVE-2025-54236(a.k.a Session Reaper) which allows customer acc

⭐ 4🍴 0Aug 2026

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/community-edition, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Remediation status

    No patched version of magento/community-edition has shipped for CVE-2025-54236 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

How to detect CVE-2025-54236

A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:

nuclei -id cve-2025-54236 -u https://target
Template
Adobe Commerce - Authentication Bypass
Severity
critical
Impact
Attackers can take over user sessions, compromising confidentiality and integrity of user data.
Remediation
Update to the latest Adobe Commerce version.

Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (DhiyaneshDK, slcyber, johnk3r), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.

Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.9-alpha2, 2.4.8-p2, 2.4.7-p7, 2.4.6-p12, 2.4.5-p14, 2.4.4-p15 and earlier are affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. A successful attacker can abuse this to achieve session takeover, increasing the confidentiality and integrity impact to high. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.
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CVE-2025-54236: community-edition (Critical 9.1, KEV)