Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privileged AEM access
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DeliveryCraft malicious DOM-manipulating webpage/URL
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ExploitLure authenticated victim to visit it
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ExecutionExecute JavaScript in victim browser context
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ImpactCompromise victim session across scope boundary
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 (1) a low-privileged authenticated context in Adobe Experience Manager (PR:L) - the attacker needs some level of valid access rather than being fully anonymous - and (2) victim user interaction (UI:R): a victim user must visit an attacker-crafted webpage or URL that manipulates the DOM to inject script. The vulnerability affects AEM 6.5 up to and including 6.5.25. Limiting factors that reduce realistic risk: the mandatory user-interaction step prevents fully automated/wormable exploitation, the required low-privilege foothold narrows the attacker pool, and impact is limited to Low confidentiality and Low integrity with no availability effect; the changed scope (S:C) means impact lands in the victim's browser context beyond the vulnerable component. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity (CVSS 5.4), authenticated DOM-based XSS in Adobe Experience Manager, and the available signals consistently point to a lower-priority issue rather than an urgent one. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) shows network reachability and low complexity, but two meaningful frictions: it requires existing low-level privileges (PR:L) and victim user interaction (UI:R), and both confidentiality and integrity impact are only Low. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public POC was provided in the input, so there is no evidence of exploitation activity - exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The changed scope (S:C) is the one factor that elevates impact, reflecting that injected script executes in the victim's browser context rather than the vulnerable component alone, which is typical of reflected/DOM XSS. On balance this is a real but routine web-application flaw to patch in normal cycles, not a high-real-risk emergency; the combination of required privileges plus user interaction substantially limits mass or automated exploitation. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with low-privileged access crafts a malicious URL or webpage that manipulates the DOM of an AEM interface so that attacker-controlled JavaScript executes when an authenticated victim (e.g., an AEM author or administrator) visits it. The script then runs in the victim's browser session, enabling actions such as stealing session context or performing requests as the victim. No public exploit code is identified, and successful attack requires the victim to interact by visiting the crafted page (UI:R), with low attack complexity once that occurs. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
DOM-based cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 (all releases up to and including 6.5.25) lets a low-privileged authenticated attacker inject and execute malicious JavaScript in a victim's browser by manipulating the DOM environment of a crafted page the victim is induced to visit. Because the CVSS vector carries PR:L and UI:R, exploitation requires an existing low-privilege foothold in AEM plus deliberate victim interaction, and the resulting impact is limited to Low confidentiality and Low integrity with no availability effect (the changed scope S:C means the script executes in the victim's browser context rather than the server's). This is a moderate-severity (CVSS 5.4) issue with no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no confirmed active exploitation, so it warrants routine patch-cycle handling rather than emergency response.
RemediationAI
Apply the fixed AEM release identified in Adobe's security bulletin apsb26-152 (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-152.html), which is the authoritative source for the corrected 6.5 cumulative fix pack or service pack version for this DOM XSS; the specific patched version number is not independently confirmed in the provided input, so consult the bulletin directly rather than assuming a version. Because exploitation requires a low-privileged authenticated foothold, a meaningful compensating control is to review and tighten AEM user and group entitlements so that only staff who genuinely need authoring or content-management access hold accounts, and to disable or restrict anonymous/default accounts - the trade-off is reduced flexibility for external contributors and possible friction for authors. If immediate patching is not feasible, deploy a restrictive Content-Security-Policy on AEM author and publish tiers to blunt inline script execution and add Trusted Types enforcement where AEM's client-side code allows it - these can break legitimate UI behavior and require staged testing. Additional hardening includes restricting author-tier exposure to trusted networks or VPN rather than the public internet, monitoring for suspicious crafted URLs being circulated to AEM users (the UI:R prerequisite means social engineering is part of the attack chain), and auditing custom AEM components or clientlibs that pass DOM-controllable input into script sinks, since such code can reintroduce DOM XSS independently of the patch.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a client-side, DOM-based cross-site scripting issue (CWE-79) in Adobe Experience Manager 6.5, tracked by Adobe PSIRT and mirrored by ENISA as EUVD-2026-100545. Unlike reflected or stored XSS, DOM XSS arises because client-side JavaScript in AEM reads attacker-influenced data from DOM sources (such as the URL fragment, query parameters, or other browser-controlled properties) and passes it to a dangerous DOM sink without proper encoding or sanitization, so the injected script never has to traverse the server and traditional server-side output filtering may not see it. The CVSS:3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N describes a network-reachable attack that is easy to execute technically (AC:L) but gated by a low-privileged authenticated position (PR:L) and mandatory user interaction (UI:R); the S:C rating reflects that the injected script executes in the victim's browser security context, beyond the boundary of the vulnerable AEM component. Affected versions per the ENISA EUVD dataset are Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 up to and including 6.5.25.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Network-reachable DOM XSS with low complexity but requiring a low-privileged foothold (PR:L) and victim interaction (UI:R); script executes across a scope boundary (S:C) in the victim browser, yielding Low C/I and no A.
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-2026-100545
GHSA-f94m-mmpx-f558
NVD
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EPSS
Exploit-DB