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 payload URL/page
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ExploitLure victim to visit crafted webpage
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ExecutionScript executes in victim browser context
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ImpactHijack session or 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) a low-privileged authenticated account on the Adobe Experience Manager instance (CVSS PR:L), and (2) active user interaction - a victim must be induced to visit an attacker-crafted webpage that manipulates the DOM (CVSS UI:R, per the description 'a victim must visit a crafted webpage'). The affected deployments are Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 up to and including 6.5.25. Limiting factors that reduce realistic risk: the attacker cannot act purely unauthenticated, the payload only fires after successful social engineering of a victim into loading the crafted page, and impact is confined to JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context (no direct server availability impact, A:N). These conditions make opportunistic mass exploitation unlikely and favor targeted use against AEM authors/administrators. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity (CVSS 5.4) DOM-based XSS in Adobe Experience Manager, and the available signals point to a real but non-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) shows network reach and low attack complexity, but two meaningful limiters: PR:L means the attacker needs at least low-privileged authenticated access, and UI:R means a victim must be lured into visiting a crafted page. The changed scope (S:C) plus the DOM-XSS nature means code executes in the victim's browser context, outside the vulnerable component's authorization boundary, which is why confidentiality and integrity are rated Low rather than None. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, SSVC decision, or POC indicator was supplied in the input, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation - this is a vendor-reported (psirt@adobe.com) issue, not a KEV-confirmed one. The absence of exploitation-probability data (EPSS) is a genuine gap; absence should not be read as low risk, but nothing in the data elevates this above routine patch-cycle handling. Net: a legitimate stored/DOM XSS worth remediating on normal timelines, not a high-CVSS-but-illusory issue and not a confirmed-exploited emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged authenticated AEM user (or an attacker who has phished such credentials) crafts a URL or page that manipulates the DOM so that attacker-controlled JavaScript executes when a victim - such as an AEM author or administrator - visits it. The injected script runs in the victim's browser session, enabling session-token theft or actions on behalf of the victim. No public exploit was identified in the provided data, so this scenario is inferred from the CVSS vector and CWE-79 classification. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
DOM-based cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 (through 6.5.25) lets an attacker with a low-privileged authenticated account on the instance execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of a victim who is induced to load a crafted page, potentially hijacking sessions and performing actions as that user in the AEM UI (scope change per CVSS S:C). Exploitation is not opportunistic: it requires both a valid low-privileged login (CVSS PR:L) and successful social engineering of a victim (CVSS UI:R), and impact is limited to confidentiality and integrity at Low with no availability effect (A:N). At CVSS 5.4 this is a moderate-severity, non-urgent finding - no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis - but it is worth prompt attention in environments where untrusted or guest-level AEM accounts are provisioned or where the author tier is broadly reachable.
RemediationAI
Adobe has published security bulletin APSB26-152 (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-152.html) covering this issue; apply the fixed AEM 6.5 release/service pack identified there rather than any version inferred from third-party summaries, since the provided intelligence does not state an exact fix build - treat this as "patch available per vendor advisory" and verify the target build against the bulletin before closing the finding. If immediate upgrade is not possible, the highest-value compensating control is to reduce the two prerequisites: constrain who can hold even low-privileged AEM accounts (PR:L means a valid login is mandatory) by disabling unused/guest accounts and tightening repository ACLs, and restrict network access to the author tier to trusted admin VLANs or VPN, accepting the trade-off that remote authoring and external agency workflows will be disrupted. Enforce a strict Content-Security-Policy on the AEM web UI to blunt inline script execution and session-token theft, accepting that aggressive CSP directives frequently break AEM console widgets and third-party clientlibs and should be rolled out in report-only mode first. Because delivery depends on a victim visiting an attacker-crafted page (UI:R), reinforce phishing awareness for AEM authors/administrators and consider safer-browsing or URL-reputation blocking at the egress proxy - a purely detective measure with limited coverage. Where an upstream code fix is distributed only as a GitHub PR or commit, note that "Upstream fix available (PR/commit); released patched version not independently confirmed" and validate the fix is present in your deployed build; no vendor-released patch version can be cited beyond what APSB26-152 lists.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), specifically the DOM-based XSS sub-class: rather than the server reflecting untrusted input into HTML, client-side JavaScript in the AEM UI reads attacker-influenced data (URL fragments, query parameters, DOM state) and writes it into a dangerous sink such as innerHTML, document.write, or eval, so the payload never has to traverse the server response. Because the execution context is the victim's browser session against the AEM origin, the scope is marked changed (S:C) - the exploited script runs with the privileges of the target origin and can read tokens, CSRF-protect-free endpoints, or drive the AEM web UI on the victim's behalf. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N confirms a network-reachable attack that requires a low-privileged authenticated foothold (PR:L), user interaction to deliver the crafted page (UI:R), and modest confidentiality/integrity impact. Affected deployments are Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 up to and including 6.5.25 per the ENISA EUVD tracking record (EUVD-2026-100548); no CPE strings were supplied, so asset matching should key on the AEM 6.5 version line reported under the vendor advisory.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
DOM XSS reachable over the network (AV:N) but needs a low-privileged account (PR:L) and victim interaction (UI:R); browser-context execution crosses the authorization boundary (S:C) with limited C/I impact and no availability loss.
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-2026-100548
GHSA-6px2-j6qp-j7x5
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Exploit-DB