Adobe Experience Manager up to 6.5.21 Form Field cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Adobe Experience Manager up to 6.5.21. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Form Field Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-43736. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Experience Manager up to 6.5.21. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Form Field Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.21 and earlier are affected by a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could be abused by an 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-43736 since 08/15/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 212264 (Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.0 < 6.5.22 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB24-69)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (212264). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• Experience Manager

Version

• 6.5.0
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.6
• 6.5.7
• 6.5.8
• 6.5.9
• 6.5.10
• 6.5.11
• 6.5.12
• 6.5.13
• 6.5.14
• 6.5.15
• 6.5.16
• 6.5.17
• 6.5.18
• 6.5.19
• 6.5.20
• 6.5.21

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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