Adobe Experience Manager up to 6.5.22 cross site scripting

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Adobe Experience Manager up to 6.5.22. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-47089. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Adobe Experience Manager up to 6.5.22. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.22 and earlier are 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-47089 since 04/30/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack 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 238053 (Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.0 < 6.5.23 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-48)), 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 (238053). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality 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
• 6.5.22

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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