CVE-2025-47015
📋 TL;DR
Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.22 and earlier contain a stored XSS vulnerability where low-privileged attackers can inject malicious scripts into form fields. When victims browse pages containing these compromised fields, their browsers execute the attacker's JavaScript. This affects organizations using vulnerable AEM instances for content management.
💻 Affected Systems
- Adobe Experience Manager
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers could steal administrator session cookies, perform actions as authenticated users, deface websites, or redirect users to malicious sites.
Likely Case
Low-privileged users could escalate privileges, steal other users' session data, or perform limited malicious actions within the application context.
If Mitigated
With proper input validation and output encoding, the vulnerability would be prevented, though the underlying code flaw remains.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated low-privileged access. The vulnerability is in form field handling where user input isn't properly sanitized.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 6.5.23 or later
Vendor Advisory: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb25-48.html
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Backup your AEM instance. 2. Download and apply AEM 6.5.23 or later from Adobe's distribution portal. 3. Follow Adobe's upgrade documentation for your deployment type. 4. Restart the AEM service. 5. Verify the update completed successfully.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Input Validation Filter
allImplement custom servlet filters to sanitize form field inputs before processing
Implement Java servlet filter with OWASP Java Encoder library for input sanitization
Content Security Policy
allImplement strict CSP headers to mitigate XSS impact
Add 'Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'' to HTTP responses
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Restrict low-privileged user access to form creation and editing capabilities
- Implement web application firewall rules to block XSS payload patterns
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check AEM version via OSGi console (http://[host]:[port]/system/console/bundles) or CRX Package Manager for version 6.5.22 or earlierCheck Version:
curl -s http://localhost:4502/system/console/bundles | grep 'Adobe Experience Manager'Verify Fix Applied:
Confirm AEM version is 6.5.23 or later and test form fields with basic XSS payloads like <script>alert('test')</script>📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual form submissions with script tags or JavaScript code
- Multiple failed XSS attempts in request logs
- Suspicious user agent strings in form submissions
Network Indicators:
- HTTP requests containing <script> tags in POST parameters
- Unusual outbound connections from AEM server following form submissions
SIEM Query:
source="aem_access.log" AND ("<script" OR "javascript:" OR "onerror=" OR "onload=")