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Adobe Experience Manager CVE-2025-64792

MEDIUM
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2025-12-10 psirt@adobe.com
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: adobe
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain low-privileged AEM account
  2. Delivery
    Inject script into vulnerable form field
  3. Exploit
    Payload stored in repository
  4. Execution
    Victim browses affected page
  5. Persist
    Script executes in victim browser
  6. Impact
    Session/token theft or UI actions

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
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 low-privileged AEM account with the ability to submit/store content into a vulnerable form field (PR:L), and a separate victim who must browse to the page rendering that field for the stored payload to execute (UI:R). It affects Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23 and earlier, including AEM Cloud Service and the 6.5 LTS branch. These two gates - prior authenticated access plus required victim interaction - substantially limit realistic exploitation despite the network attack vector.

Impact

This is a high-CVSS-context product but a genuinely low real-world-risk issue. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 5.4 (MEDIUM), and the vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N shows two independent gates: PR:L (attacker must already hold a low-privileged authenticated AEM author account) and UI:R (a victim must browse to the page hosting the injected field). EPSS reinforces the low-priority read: 0.25% probability, 15th percentile - bottom-tier likelihood of exploitation. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code identified, so exploitation status is speculative only. The scope change (S:C) reflects that injected script runs in the victim's browser context (a different security authority than the vulnerable AEM component), but impact is capped at C:L/I:L with no availability impact. All signals align consistently - moderate CVSS, low EPSS, no KEV, no POC - pointing to a real-but-not-urgent finding best handled in normal patch cycles. No signals conflict; the main uncertainty is the absence of a confirmed fixed version in the referenced advisory.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A low-privileged AEM author-tier user injects a malicious JavaScript payload into a vulnerable form field. When another user (e.g., an editor or reviewer) later navigates to the page rendering that field, the stored script executes in their browser session, enabling session/cookie theft or actions on their behalf. No public proof-of-concept exploit code has been identified.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 26, 2026

Stored cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23 and earlier allows an authenticated low-privileged attacker to inject malicious JavaScript into vulnerable form fields, which then executes in the browser of any user who later views the affected page. Exploitation requires two independent gates as assessed: a valid low-privileged AEM account able to submit content into the vulnerable field (PR:L per the CVSS vector), and a separate victim who must browse to the page rendering that stored payload (UI:R), which substantially limits realistic risk despite the network attack vector. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is low at 0.25% (15th percentile), so this is best treated as a persistent-but-conditional content-injection issue rather than an urgent, remotely exploitable flaw.

RemediationAI

Apply the fixed release specified in Adobe advisory apsb25-115 for Adobe Experience Manager (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb25-115.html); systems on 6.5.23 or earlier, including the 6.5 LTS branch and AEM Cloud Service instances, should be upgraded to the Adobe-designated patched build, and AEM Cloud Service customers are generally remediated automatically on the vendor's release cadence. Because the provided data does not state an exact patched version number above 6.5.23, confirm the target version directly against the advisory rather than assuming. Where immediate upgrade is not possible, compensating controls should target the two exploitation gates: reduce the population of accounts that can submit content into form fields by tightening AEM permissions and disabling unused Forms/adaptive-form authoring capabilities, accepting the trade-off that legitimate authors lose that functionality; and deploy a Content Security Policy with restrictive script-src and no unsafe-inline on rendered pages, plus a WAF or Dispatcher-level filter that blocks script-bearing payloads in form submissions, both of which can break legitimate rich-content authoring and require tuning. Centralized output encoding/sanitization of persisted form-field values and review of existing stored form content for injected scripts are also advisable, since removal of already-persisted payloads is required to fully close a stored XSS condition.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause class is CWE-79, Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation, in its stored (persistent) variant: user-supplied data accepted through AEM form fields is persisted server-side and later rendered into HTML without adequate output encoding or sanitization, so injected script survives across requests and executes in the security context of the victim's session. Because the CVSS vector carries S:C (scope changed), the executing script can act outside the original form/component context, for example reading the victim's authenticated AEM session or performing actions as that user. The attack vector AV:N/AC:L indicates the payload can be delivered over the network with no special complexity, while PR:L and UI:R reflect the two preconditions noted in the independent assessment - an authenticated low-privileged authoring/submission capability and a victim who navigates to the poisoned page. The provided CPE data (adobe:experience_manager with a wildcard version, the aem_cloud_service edition, and the 6.5 LTS branch) confirms the defect spans both the on-premise Managed Services / 6.5 LTS line and the AEM as a Cloud Service offering, meaning the vulnerable code path is shared across deployment models rather than isolated to one build.

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Severity by source

Vendor (adobe) PRIMARY 5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Network-reachable authoring interface (AV:N), requires a low-priv author account (PR:L) and victim page visit (UI:R); stored XSS crosses into browser context (S:C) with limited C/I impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (adobe).

CVSS VectorVendor: adobe

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

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.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 85% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
enterprise Java/Sling CMS, common in large orgs but not ubiquitous
Data Quality
3 sources
Confidence: Low

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

27
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +27
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:*:*:*:*:aem_cloud_service:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:6.5:-:*:*:lts:*:*:*
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