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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DeliveryInject script into vulnerable form field
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ExploitPayload stored server-side
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ExecutionVictim browses affected page
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ImpactScript executes in victim browser
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 account with the ability to submit input into the affected AEM form fields (PR:L), and the stored payload only triggers when a victim subsequently browses to the page rendering that field (UI:R). Limiting factors: attacker must already have valid authenticated access to the AEM authoring/form workflow, the malicious content must be persisted into a vulnerable field, and a victim must actively view the affected page for the script to execute - reducing the practical blast radius despite the network attack vector. Affected deployments are AEM 6.5 (≤6.5.25) and AEM 6.5 LTS (≤6.5 LTS SP3); other versions are not indicated as vulnerable. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity stored XSS (CVSS 5.4, CWE-79) whose signals align consistently toward LOW real-world urgency despite affecting a widely-deployed enterprise product. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) indicates network-reachable but authenticated (PR:L - low-privileged) exploitation requiring victim user interaction (UI:R), with only partial confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact; the changed scope (S:C) reflects that injected script executes in a victim's browser context distinct from the vulnerable AEM component. CISA's SSVC decision framework reinforces low priority: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial. No EPSS score was supplied in the input, and there is no KEV listing and no public POC, so all exploitation signals point the same direction with no conflict. The combination of required authentication, required user interaction, and the need to inject into specific form fields makes this a genuine but non-emergency patch item rather than a drop-everything priority - characteristic of an inflated-feeling but realistically limited stored XSS. No key signals contradict one another here. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged authenticated AEM user (e.g., a content author or form contributor) injects malicious JavaScript into a vulnerable form field; the payload is stored server-side. When a higher-privileged user or site visitor later browses to the page rendering that field, the script executes in their browser, enabling session/token theft or actions in the victim's authenticated context. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and successful exploitation depends on the victim actually viewing the affected page. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 (through 6.5.25) and AEM 6.5 LTS (through 6.5 LTS SP3) lets a low-privileged authenticated user persist malicious JavaScript into vulnerable form fields, which then executes in the browser of any victim who views the page rendering that field (CVSS 5.4, CWE-79, scope changed). Exploitation requires a valid low-privileged authoring account (PR:L) and victim interaction (UI:R), so practical blast radius is bounded by the need for both an insider-level account and a victim browsing to the poisoned page. There is no public exploit code identified at time of analysis, no evidence of confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV), and the CISA SSVC assessment rates exploitation as none and the issue as non-automatable, so real-world urgency is currently low despite the enterprise footprint of the product.
RemediationAI
Apply the fixed AEM builds published by Adobe in security bulletin APSB26-152 (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-152.html), which is the definitive source for the patched service pack or hotfix level on both the 6.5 and 6.5 LTS tracks; an exact patched version number is not specified in the available CVE data, so verify it against that advisory rather than relying on a version inferred here. Until the fixed build is deployed, reduce exposure by restricting who can author or submit into AEM form fields so that only trusted, minimal sets of users hold low-privileged accounts capable of persisting content - accepting the trade-off that legitimate content operations may be slowed or need a temporary approval workflow. Add a Content Security Policy on the AEM publish/author hosts to block inline and third-party script execution where feasible, understanding that stock AEM client libraries and legacy components may require nonce/hash tuning and can break until adjusted; set session cookies HttpOnly and Secure so any successful script execution cannot trivially read session tokens; and enforce output encoding or sanitization on form-field rendering paths via a dispatcher/WAF rule that strips script-bearing payloads from stored form content, noting that overly broad filtering risks false positives on legitimate rich-text submissions. Because exploitation requires an authenticated low-privileged account plus a victim viewing the poisoned page, monitoring AEM audit and access logs for unexpected content changes by low-privileged users is a practical detective control pending patching.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is a classic CWE-79 stored/persistent cross-site scripting defect in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's Java-based enterprise content management and digital asset management platform. The flaw lives in AEM form field handling: input submitted by a user is persisted server-side and later rendered back into a page without adequate output encoding or input neutralization, so script content survives storage and executes in the origin of the AEM instance when another user opens the affected page. The CVSS 3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N indicates the attack is network-reachable and requires low privileges plus user interaction; the Scope:Changed component (S:C) reflects that the injected script runs in the security context of the victim's session on the AEM domain rather than the attacker's, which is the mechanism that makes session/token theft or in-session action forgery possible within that origin. Affected deployment lines per the EUVD data are AEM 6.5 up to and including 6.5.25 and AEM 6.5 LTS up to and including 6.5 LTS SP3; no other version line is indicated as vulnerable by the available intelligence, and the CISA SSVC inputs (Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, Technical Impact: partial) support treating this as a targeted-abuse risk rather than a mass-exploitation campaign.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Authenticated low-privileged attacker injects (PR:L), victim must view the page (UI:R), script runs in a separate browser context (S:C) with partial C/I impact and no availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (adobe).
CVSS VectorVendor: adobe
DescriptionCVE.org
Adobe Experience Manager is 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. Scope is changed.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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