Top 10 CVEs of 2025: High-Impact Vulnerabilities & Exploitation Trends

The article presents a curated snapshot of the 2025 threat landscape, highlighting ten high‑impact CVEs that dominated headlines and real‑world activity, rather than ranking them by severity. It notes React2Shell, with CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478, as an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw affecting React Server Components in React 19 and frameworks like Next.js.

FortiWeb’s CVE-2025-64446 is described as a path traversal and authentication bypass targeting FortiWeb’s management interface, observed in October 2025 with over 700 internet-facing FortiWeb instances identified. Oracle’s EBS vulnerabilities feature prominently, including CVE-2025-61882 (BI Publisher RCE) and CVE-2025-61884 (UiServlet authentication bypass), both involved in post‑exposure extortion and initial access campaigns.

Other entries include GoAnywhere MFT’s CVE-2025-10035 (command injection) tied to Storm‑1175 activity, Sitecore CVE-2025-53690 (ViewState RCE) linked to legacy keys, and the MadeYouReset CVE-2025-8671 DoS technique affecting multiple stacks. The list also covers SharePoint CVE-2025-53770 (ToolShell ZER0‑day RCE) and CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777, along with Ivanti CVE-2025-0282 (stack-based RCE), all illustrating how exposure, misconfigurations, and legacy components fuel real‑world breaches.