High severity · published Feb 8, 2019
CVE-2019-6242
Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuration page
7.2
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuration page. NOTE: the vendor considers this a best-practice violation but not a vulnerability. The vendor plans to fix it at a future time
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 68% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XP
Xperience · Kentico
10.0.42 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6242
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6242
Exploit
https://gist.github.com/boatpavaris/cff51e52a96fdde8215f71a3315703c2
More from Xperience
9.8
CVE-2025-2747
Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Sync Server None Password Type Authentication Bypass
9.8
CVE-2025-2746
Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.172 Staging Sync Server Digest Password Authentication Bypass
9.8
CVE-2019-10068
Kentico Xperience Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
7.2
CVE-2025-2749
Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.178 Staging Media File Upload Authenticated RCE
9.8
CVE-2025-32370
Kentico Xperience before 13.0.178 has a specific set of allowed ContentUploader file extensions for unauthenticated uploads; however, because .zip is processed through…