Adobe Experience Manager
CVE-2025-64586
MEDIUM
Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privileged AEM user
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ExploitInject malicious script into vulnerable form field
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ExecutionVictim browses page containing stored payload
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ImpactScript executes in victim's browser
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated account with at least low privileges in Adobe Experience Manager (PR:L) capable of writing to the affected form fields, so this is not remotely reachable by anonymous users. It further requires victim interaction (UI:R): a user must browse to the page rendering the stored malicious field for the JavaScript to execute. Affected deployments are AEM 6.5.23 and earlier, including the 6.5 LTS line and AEM Cloud Service per the listed CPEs. Limiting factors: the dual requirement of a provisioned low-privilege author account plus a victim visiting the poisoned page substantially narrows practical exploitation to environments where untrusted or semi-trusted users can author form content. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity stored XSS (CVSS 5.4, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) that signals are consistent in rating as a lower real-world priority rather than an urgent threat. The vector shows network reachability and low attack complexity, but exploitation requires a low-privileged authenticated account (PR:L) AND victim user interaction (UI:R), both of which meaningfully constrain real-world abuse. EPSS reinforces this: 0.25% probability at the 15th percentile indicates low near-term exploitation likelihood. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code identified in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active exploitation. The scope change (S:C) and only Low confidentiality/integrity impact (no availability impact) reflect the typical blast radius of stored XSS - session/UI compromise in a victim's browser rather than direct server takeover. Net: a legitimate issue worth patching in normal cycles, not a high-real-risk emergency, with no conflicting signals present in the data. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged authenticated user (e.g., a content or form author in AEM) injects malicious JavaScript into a vulnerable form field, which is stored persistently. When a victim - such as another author or an end user - browses to the page rendering that field, the script executes in their browser session, enabling actions like session/cookie theft or UI manipulation in the AEM context. No public proof-of-concept exploit was identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23 and earlier, including 6.5 LTS and AEM Cloud Service, enables a low-privilege authenticated author to inject JavaScript into form fields that executes when a victim browses to the poisoned page. Exploitation demands both a provisioned low-privilege account and victim interaction, and EPSS scores the likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.25% (15th percentile); no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV entry.
RemediationAI
Apply the vendor-supplied update for Adobe Experience Manager as detailed in Adobe Security Advisory APSB25-115 (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb25-115.html); patch availability is confirmed per the vendor advisory. Until patching is complete, consider restricting the ability to author or edit form fields to only fully trusted users, since the vulnerability requires a low-privilege account, but note this may disrupt legitimate content workflows. Additionally, deploying a web application firewall with XSS filtering can provide a temporary layer of defense, though it may not catch all obfuscated payloads and can introduce false positives. Because exploitation also requires victim interaction, user awareness training about suspicious links or pages may reduce risk, but it is not a substitute for patching.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), residing in form fields within Adobe Experience Manager, a Java-based content management system. An attacker with a low-privilege author account can persist malicious JavaScript into a form field, which is then served to other users without proper output encoding. When a victim opens the page containing the vulnerable field, the script executes in the context of their browser session, potentially leading to session hijacking or defacement, though scope is changed (S:C) and impacts are limited to low confidentiality and integrity (C:L/I:L) with no availability impact. The affected CPEs span AEM 6.5.23 and earlier, including the 6.5 LTS CPE (cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:6.5:-:*:*:lts:*:*:*) and AEM Cloud Service (cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:*:*:*:*:aem_cloud_service:*:*:*).
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Stored XSS reachable over the network (AV:N, AC:L) but needs a low-privileged author account (PR:L) and a victim to load the page (UI:R); S:C with Low C/I and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (adobe).
CVSS VectorVendor: adobe
DescriptionCVE.org
Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23 and earlier are affected by a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could be abused by a low privileged attacker to inject malicious scripts into vulnerable form fields. Malicious JavaScript may be executed in a victim’s browser when they browse to the page containing the vulnerable field.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
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