Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privilege AEM access
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DeliveryCraft webpage with malicious DOM payload
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ExploitLure authenticated victim to visit page
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ExecutionScript executes in victim browser context
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ImpactHijack victim session / act as victim
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 (1) the attacker to craft a webpage/input that reaches a vulnerable client-side DOM sink in Adobe Experience Manager, and (2) a victim to actively visit that crafted page (UI:R). Per the CVSS vector, the attacker holds low-level privileges (PR:L), meaning some authenticated AEM access is expected rather than fully anonymous exploitation; impact is limited to Low confidentiality and Low integrity in the victim's browser session with no availability impact. Limiting factors: the mandatory victim interaction, the attacker-authentication requirement, and the bounded (non-admin-takeover, non-RCE) impact of a DOM-XSS payload constrain realistic risk below the network-reachable CVSS surface. Affected deployments are AEM 6.5 LTS through SP3 and AEM 6.5 through 6.5.25. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity (CVSS 5.4) DOM-based XSS in Adobe Experience Manager, and the signals align toward a genuine-but-not-urgent priority rather than an emergency. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) indicates network-reachable, low-complexity exploitation but requires both low-level privileges (PR:L) and victim user interaction (UI:R), with only Low confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact - the Changed scope (S:C) reflects that injected script executes in the victim's browser context beyond the vulnerable component. No EPSS score, SSVC decision data, KEV listing, or POC were provided in the intelligence set, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. The absence of EPSS/KEV is consistent with the modest CVSS and the typical low mass-exploitation rate of authenticated, interaction-dependent XSS. One point to verify with the vendor: Adobe assigned PR:L, implying the attacker needs some authenticated AEM access (e.g., an author/contributor able to seed a DOM sink), yet the description frames exploitation purely as a victim visiting a crafted webpage, which could suggest a lower privilege barrier - the realistic prerequisite (attacker authentication vs. none) should be confirmed against the Adobe advisory APSB26-152. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with low-level access crafts or poisons a page/parameter that feeds unsanitized input into a client-side DOM sink in Adobe Experience Manager, then lures an authenticated victim (e.g., an author or admin) to visit the crafted URL. When the victim's browser processes the manipulated DOM, attacker-controlled JavaScript executes in the victim's AEM session context, enabling session/action abuse. No public exploit code was provided in the intelligence, and low attack complexity (AC:L) makes crafting the payload straightforward once the sink is known. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
DOM-based cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager lets an attacker with low-privileged authenticated access craft a page that executes malicious JavaScript in a victim's browser session when that victim visits it. The issue affects AEM 6.5 LTS through 6.5 LTS SP3 and AEM 6.5 through 6.5.25, and the assessed vector (CVSS 5.4, S:C) indicates the payload can reach outside the vulnerable component's own security context, although confidentiality and integrity impact are both rated Low with no availability impact. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and the mandatory victim interaction plus the attacker-authentication requirement keep realistic priority moderate rather than emergency.
RemediationAI
Apply the fix identified in Adobe's security advisory for this CVE, APSB26-152 (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-152.html) - install the AEM service pack or cumulative hotfix build that supersedes the affected ranges, meaning a 6.5 LTS build above SP3 and a 6.5.x build above 6.5.25; no exact patched build number was provided in the source data, so confirm the target build against the advisory before scheduling change windows. Because this is a DOM-based issue with an authenticated attacker (PR:L) and a required victim click (UI:R), the highest-value compensating controls are to restrict who can create or edit content that flows into AEM's client-side rendering paths, deploy a Content Security Policy with nonce- or hash-based script-src and no unsafe-inline (which blocks inline DOM-XSS execution but can break third-party widgets and legacy clientlibs unless script hashes are inventoried first), and review custom AEM components and clientlibs for unsafe DOM sinks such as innerHTML, document.write and jQuery .html() in favour of textContent or trusted sanitizers like DOMPurify. Restricting network access to author/publish instances and enforcing strong authentication on authoring interfaces reduces the attacker-privilege prerequisite, though it does not remove the underlying defect and should be treated as an interim measure until the advisory patch is applied; disabling or hardening any custom component confirmed to reach a vulnerable sink is a lower-risk alternative to a blanket CSP rollout where full script-hash coverage is impractical.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is a DOM-based XSS (CWE-79, improper neutralization of input during web page generation) in which malicious data is processed entirely client-side: AEM's JavaScript reads attacker-influenced values - URL fragments, query parameters, postMessage payloads, or client-side stored data - and writes them into a dangerous DOM sink such as innerHTML, document.write, eval, or a jQuery HTML setter, causing script execution in the origin of the AEM application. Because the payload never round-trips through the server, traditional server-side output encoding and WAF signature filtering frequently miss it, and detection usually requires client-side taint tracking or DOM instrumentation. The CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N vector reflects network reachability, low attack complexity, an attacker who already holds some low-level authenticated AEM access, and a required victim click, with the changed scope (S:C) capturing the ability of executed script to act across the boundary of the vulnerable component. AEM 6.5 LTS builds up to and including SP3 and the 6.5.x line up to 6.5.25 are the confirmed affected trains.
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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 with low complexity; vendor-stated low-privilege attacker access (PR:L) and mandatory victim visit (UI:R); script crossing into the browser context yields 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.
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-100543
GHSA-49jg-xppc-33w2
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Exploit-DB