Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft malicious DOM-manipulating URL/page
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ExploitLure authenticated AEM user to visit
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ExecutionJavaScript executes in victim browser
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ImpactAct within victim's session context
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 the victim to visit an attacker-crafted webpage or URL that manipulates the DOM of Adobe Experience Manager (UI:R), and per the CVSS vector the victim/attacker context carries low privileges (PR:L), indicating an authenticated AEM session is involved rather than a purely anonymous target. Limiting factors that reduce real-world risk: mandatory user interaction (no drive-by against a passive, non-interacting user), the PR:L privilege requirement, and the browser-confined, low-impact nature of DOM XSS (no server-side code execution and no availability impact). Affected deployments are AEM 6.5 up to and including 6.5.25 and AEM 6.5 LTS up to LTS SP3. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity DOM-based XSS (CVSS 5.4, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) in Adobe Experience Manager, and the available signals consistently point to a lower-tier, non-urgent priority rather than a critical emergency. The CVSS vector shows network reach and low attack complexity but is tempered by two meaningful constraints: required user interaction (UI:R - a victim must visit a crafted page) and a required privilege level (PR:L). Impact is limited to low confidentiality and low integrity with no availability impact, consistent with script execution confined to the victim's browser context; the scope change (S:C) reflects that the injected script crosses from the vulnerable application into the victim's authenticated session. No EPSS score was provided in the input, the CVE is NOT in CISA KEV, and no public proof-of-concept is referenced, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. There is no conflict among the signals - all of them (moderate CVSS, no active-exploitation evidence, interaction + privilege prerequisites) align toward 'real but not high priority.' The main missing datum is EPSS, which prevents a quantitative exploitation-probability comparison; patch per normal Adobe cadence rather than treating this as an exploited zero-day. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious URL or webpage that manipulates the DOM of an Adobe Experience Manager page so that attacker-controlled JavaScript executes in the browser of an authenticated victim (PR:L) who is lured into visiting it (UI:R). The script runs in the victim's AEM session context, enabling session-scoped actions such as reading page data or performing limited actions as the victim. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
DOM-based cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 (0 through 6.5.25) and AEM 6.5 LTS (0 through 6.5 LTS SP3) allows an attacker to run arbitrary JavaScript in the browser context of an AEM user by steering them to a crafted page or URL that manipulates the client-side DOM, an issue rated CVSS 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N). Because the assessed vector carries PR:L and UI:R, a realistic attack needs a low-privileged authenticated AEM session plus victim interaction, which significantly narrows exposure compared with an anonymous, no-click flaw. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so this is a medium-severity, non-urgent issue whose practical value to an attacker is limited to script execution and session/content manipulation inside the AEM origin rather than server-side compromise or denial of service.
RemediationAI
Patch status is "Patch available per vendor advisory": Adobe's security bulletin APSB26-152 (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-152.html) is the authoritative source for the exact fixed AEM 6.5 and 6.5 LTS hotfix or Service Pack version and installation instructions, and no exact fix version is confirmed in the available input data, so the bulletin should be consulted before scheduling the upgrade rather than assuming a version number. Until the AEM instance is fully updated, compensating controls are: restrict and review who holds author/publish content-creation privileges, since the PR:L requirement means an authenticated low-privileged account is part of the attack path - tightening roles reduces the pool of users who can participate in or be targeted by the flow, at the cost of authoring agility; deploy a strict Content Security Policy on AEM author and publish dispatchers to block inline and untrusted script execution, accepting that some Granite/Coral UI components may break and require allowlisting; harden or terminate untrusted query-string and fragment handling at the dispatcher/reverse-proxy layer (rewrite or strip suspicious parameters and add output-encoding filters), noting this cannot fully catch DOM-only flows that never reach the server; and ensure the AEM session cookie is scoped narrowly and treated as sensitive so that a successful script execution in one UI context has less cross-application value - this does not remove the flaw but limits the Scope:Changed impact described in the vector.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is a client-side (DOM-based) cross-site scripting flaw tracked as CWE-79, meaning the vulnerable data flow lives entirely in browser JavaScript: an attacker-controlled source such as a URL parameter, fragment, or referenced value is consumed by an unsafe DOM sink (for example innerHTML, document.write, or an unvalidated client-side template) without output encoding, so the payload is assembled and executed in the victim's browser rather than being reflected or stored by the server. Adobe Experience Manager is a Java-based enterprise CMS built on Apache Sling and Jackrabbit with a Granite/Coral client-side UI stack, and its authoring and publishing interfaces render a substantial amount of content and UI state through that JavaScript layer, which is where DOM XSS typically surfaces. The Scope:Changed (S:C) component of the vector indicates the executed script can affect resources beyond the vulnerable component's own security authority - for example other UI components, applications, or authenticated sessions sharing the AEM origin - while the Confidentiality:Low and Integrity:Low with Availability:None ratings confirm the impact is bounded to browser-side data exposure and tampering, not server compromise or service outage. There are no CPE strings supplied in the available data; affected product identity derives from the EUVD affected-version list (AEM 6.5 0 through 6.5.25, and AEM 6.5 LTS 0 through LTS SP3), and the vendor PSIRT (psirt@adobe.com) is the reporting source with EUVD-2026-100535 as the parallel EU vulnerability record.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Network-delivered DOM XSS needing an authenticated victim to visit a crafted page (PR:L, UI:R); script escapes app into browser session (S:C) with low C/I and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (adobe).
CVSS VectorVendor: adobe
DescriptionCVE.org
Adobe Experience Manager is affected by a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this issue by manipulating the DOM environment to execute malicious JavaScript within the context of the victim's browser. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must visit a crafted webpage. Scope is changed.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-100535
GHSA-8p6x-wcw5-9qmh
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
VulDB
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