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Oracle Commerce CVE-2026-71037

| EUVDEUVD-2026-61984 CRITICAL
Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
2026-08-18 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-j3cx-rgh2-vxh3
9.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: oracle
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Craft malicious Experience Manager payload
  2. Delivery
    Deliver link to authorized operator
  3. Exploit
    Victim interacts in authenticated session
  4. Execution
    Script executes across scope boundary
  5. Impact
    Read or modify critical data and pivot

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation targets the Experience Manager component of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Experience Manager 11.4.0 over HTTP and requires no attacker authentication (PR:N), but it is gated by UI:R - a person other than the attacker, typically an authenticated Experience Manager user/merchandiser, must interact with attacker-controlled content for the attack to succeed. Limiting factors: only version 11.4.0 is listed as affected, the target Experience Manager HTTP interface must be reachable by the attacker's payload delivery path, and the victim must have an active/authorized session and be induced to act. The scope change means a successful attack can affect products beyond Oracle Commerce itself. There is no availability impact.

Impact

The raw score is high (CVSS 9.3, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N) and the flaw is unauthenticated and network-reachable, but the UI:R requirement means exploitation is not automatable - an authorized user must be induced to act, which lowers real-world exploitability from the worst case. There is no EPSS score, no KEV listing, and no POC in the provided data, so all three widespread-exploitation signals are absent or unknown; this reads as a serious-but-not-imminent issue rather than a mass-exploited one. The A:N impact means no denial of service, but C:H and I:H with a scope change make data theft and tampering across products the primary concern. Note a tension worth verifying: the source tags this 'Authentication Bypass', yet the vector and impact pattern point to XSS/user-interaction abuse rather than a true auth bypass - treat the tag as unconfirmed and confirm the actual vulnerability class with Oracle's advisory.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker crafts a malicious link or content payload targeting the Experience Manager component and delivers it to an authenticated Oracle Commerce operator (e.g., via email or a planted request). When that person interacts with it, the payload executes in their session, letting the attacker read or modify critical storefront and catalog data and pivot into connected products. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and success depends on the network-reachable, low-complexity conditions plus the required human interaction.

Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Why: CRITICAL severity.
No patch listed yet 0.4% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026

Unauthorized data access and modification in Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Experience Manager 11.4.0 (Experience Manager component) lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker who lures an authorized user into interacting with malicious content read, alter, or destroy all data reachable by the application and pivot into other products (scope change). Oracle rates it CVSS 9.3 with high confidentiality and integrity impact but no availability impact, and the profile (AV:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N, plus the 'Authentication Bypass' tag) is consistent with a cross-site-scripting-class flaw. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not in CISA KEV, but Oracle assigns it a critical score.

RemediationAI

Apply the fixes from Oracle's Critical Patch Update of August 2026 (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspuaug2026.html); this is patch available per vendor advisory, as Oracle CPUs ship patch sets rather than a discrete tagged version, and no exact fix version was provided in the source data. Until the CPU is applied, reduce exposure by restricting network access to the Experience Manager administrative and preview interfaces to trusted management networks or VPN only (trade-off: business users lose direct remote access), and by warning authorized merchandisers not to open untrusted links or content in an authenticated session since exploitation requires user interaction. If the deployment fronts Experience Manager with a WAF or reverse proxy, enable output-encoding/XSS filtering rules on the affected endpoints as a stopgap, accepting possible false positives on legitimate rich content. Because this is a scope-change flaw impacting additional products, prioritize the CPU over workarounds.

Affected VersionsENISA

Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0

Affected Packages

euvd oracle_commerce_guided_search_oracle_commerce_experience_manager no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

Oracle Commerce Guided Search (the former Endeca platform) with Experience Manager is the merchandising and site-experience layer of Oracle's enterprise e-commerce suite, letting business users design search-driven storefront pages served over HTTP. The vulnerable code lives in the Experience Manager component of version 11.4.0. The CVSS vector - network vector, no privileges, required user interaction, changed scope, high C/I with no availability impact - is Oracle's characteristic signature for a stored or reflected cross-site scripting weakness (CWE-79), where attacker-supplied content is rendered in a victim's authenticated browser session; the CWE was not populated (N/A) in the source data, so the class is inferred from the vector rather than stated by Oracle. The scope change indicates the injected content executes in a security context beyond the vulnerable component, enabling impact on additional products.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 9.3 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
vuln.today AI 9.3 CRITICAL

Network-reachable, no auth needed (PR:N) but requires victim interaction (UI:R); injected content crosses into another context (S:C) yielding high C/I with no availability impact.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

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

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager product of Oracle Commerce (component: Experience Manager). The supported version that is affected is 11.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.3 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Oracle Commerce Guided Search 11.4.0 contains a critical, unauthenticated vulnerability (CVSS 9.3) allowing attackers to socially engineer authorized users into exposing all system data for theft, modification, or destruction. While no public exploit has been identified, this poses immediate and severe breach risk to customer data and operational continuity for any organization running this version.

Business Impact: Severe
Compensating Controls

Deploy Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules configured to block reflected XSS attack patterns in HTTP requests; implement Content Security Policy (CSP) headers restricting inline script execution; enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) on all administrative and API access; apply strict input validation and output encoding to all user-controlled data fields; implement network segmentation to isolate the affected system and limit lateral movement to critical infrastructure; increase logging and alerting for suspicious data access, unauthorized modifications, and anomalous administrative activities; conduct mandatory phishing and social engineering awareness training for all users to reduce attack success rates.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 72% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
legacy Oracle/Endeca enterprise commerce suite, niche declining retail footprint
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

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 CRITICAL
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.4%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
CRITICAL severity
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
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
Very High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

46
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +46
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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