# CVE-2024-46938: Sitecore Experience - Arbitrary File Read

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-46938 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-46938

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 7.5
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Sitecore Experience Platform
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)
- **Tags:** cms

## Description

An issue was discovered in Sitecore Experience Platform (XP), Experience Manager (XM), and Experience Commerce (XC) 8.0 Initial Release through 10.4 Initial Release. An unauthenticated attacker can read arbitrary files.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-46938](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-46938) is a vulnerability in the Sitecore Experience suite that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from the server via crafted requests.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 20th of May 2025.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2024-46938 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations.
CrowdSec network telemetry also shows that exploitation of CVE-2024-46938 has significantly declined over the past week. Attack volumes are well below the long-term average, suggesting attackers are rapidly losing interest. The vulnerability appears to be falling out of active use across most threat landscapes.

Observed exploitation attempts focus on requests to URLs containing `/-/speak/v1/bundles/bundle.js`.

## Timeline

- 2024-09-15: CVE Published. CVE-2024-46938 is published to NVD.
- 2025-05-20: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-46938 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-05-21: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-46938 for the first time.

## References

- https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003408
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-46938.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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