CVE-2025-47033
📋 TL;DR
Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.22 and earlier contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows low-privileged attackers to inject malicious JavaScript into form fields. When victims browse pages containing the compromised fields, their browsers execute the attacker's scripts, potentially leading to session hijacking or data theft.
💻 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 attackers inject malicious scripts to steal user session data or perform limited unauthorized actions within the application.
If Mitigated
With proper input validation and output encoding, the vulnerability would be prevented, though the underlying code flaw remains.
🎯 Exploit Status
Requires authenticated low-privileged access to vulnerable form fields
🛠️ 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. Download Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23 or later from Adobe's official distribution channels. 2. Follow Adobe's upgrade documentation for your deployment type (on-premise or cloud). 3. Apply the update to all affected instances. 4. Restart the AEM service.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Input Validation Filter
allImplement server-side input validation to sanitize user input in form fields
Configure AEM's XSS protection filters via OSGi configuration
Content Security Policy
allImplement strict CSP headers to limit script execution
Add Content-Security-Policy headers via dispatcher or web server configuration
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Restrict low-privileged user access to vulnerable form fields and components
- Implement web application firewall rules to detect and block XSS payloads
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check AEM version via the Welcome screen or CRXDE Lite interfaceCheck Version:
curl -k https://[aem-host]:[port]/system/console/status-productinfo | grep 'Adobe Experience Manager'Verify Fix Applied:
Verify version is 6.5.23 or later and test form fields with XSS payloads📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual POST requests to form submission endpoints with script tags
- Multiple failed XSS attempts in request logs
Network Indicators:
- HTTP requests containing script injection patterns to AEM endpoints
SIEM Query:
source="aem_access.log" AND ("<script>" OR "javascript:" OR "onerror=" OR "onload=")