CVE-2025-54236
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. 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.
do firstApply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Can a WAF block it? Partly. Cloudflare publishes WAF rules written for this CVE. Such rules block the known exploit requests and buy time, but attackers can change the request to get past them, so they do not replace the patch.
Cloudflare · 3 rules (Block) · since 22 Sept 2025
- Adobe Commerce - Remote Code Execution - CVE:CVE-2025-54236 · Cloudflare Managed Ruleset
- Adobe Commerce - Remote Code Execution - CVE:CVE-2025-54236 · Cloudflare Managed Ruleset
- Adobe Commerce - Remote Code Execution - CVE:CVE-2025-54236 · Cloudflare Managed Ruleset
Also consider: patch · enable the vendor rule in block mode
Based on WAF vendor rules published for this CVE. We check Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud Armor and Azure; for Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, F5, ask your vendor.
Is CVE-2025-54236 being exploited?
Yes. CVE-2025-54236 appears in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed and reported. Treat it as active rather than theoretical, and patch it ahead of higher-scoring vulnerabilities that carry no exploitation evidence.
How severe is CVE-2025-54236?
CVE-2025-54236 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.1. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-54236?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-54236. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-54236 affect?
CVE-2025-54236 affects adobe:commerce, adobe:commerce_b2b, adobe:magento. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
- affected<= 2.4.4-p15
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.
public exploits
Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module · 7 GitHub proofs of concept · 1 Nuclei template
- exploit/multi/http/magento_sessionreaper · exploit · excellent
- Adobe Commerce - Authentication Bypass · detection template · critical
- wubinworks/magento2-session-reaper-patch · 4 ★
- alexb616/SessionReaper-CVE-2025-54236 · 1 ★
- amalpvatayam67/day01-sessionreaper-lab · 0 ★
- Baba01hacker666/cve-2025-54236 · 0 ★
Listed so you can judge urgency, not as a recommendation to run anything. GitHub “proofs of concept” are unvetted: some are fake or carry malware. Exploit-DB marks the entries its staff verified.
cisa ssvc
- exploitation
- active
- automatable
- yes
- technical impact
- total
Assessed by CISA 24 Oct 2025 (SSVC 2.0.3).
timeline
- 9 Sept 2025Published
- 10 Sept 2025First public exploit or proof of concept · same day later
- 24 Oct 2025Added to CISA KEV (exploited in the wild) · 44 days later
- 24 Oct 2025CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation active · 1 day later
- 24 Oct 2025CVE record last updated · same day later
- 14 Nov 2025CISA remediation due date (US federal agencies) · 20 days later
- 2 Nov 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com · 354 days (about 12 months) later
also known as
- Advisoryhelpx.adobe.com /security/products/magento/apsb25-88.html
- Exploitnullsecurityx.codes /cve-2025-54236-sessionreaper-unauthenticated-rce-in-magento
- Mitigationexperienceleague.adobe.com /en/docs/experience-cloud-kcs/kbarticles/ka-27397
- Linkcisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-54236
sources
- CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
- NVD: CVSS and CPE data
- CISA KEV catalog: exploitation, date added, due date
- CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
- FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
- Metasploit Framework: exploit and scanner modules
- Nuclei templates: detection templates
- PoC-in-GitHub: GitHub repositories that claim a proof of concept
- OSV: advisory aliases and downstream package versions
- Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.