CVE-2025-47062
📋 TL;DR
This stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager allows low-privileged attackers to inject malicious JavaScript into vulnerable form fields. When victims browse pages containing these fields, their browsers execute the attacker's scripts. Organizations using Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.22 and earlier are affected.
💻 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
Attackers with low privileges could steal user session data, perform limited actions within the application, or deploy credential harvesting pages.
If Mitigated
With proper input validation and output encoding, the vulnerability would be prevented despite the underlying code flaw.
🎯 Exploit Status
Requires authenticated low-privilege 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 in /system/console/configMgr
Content Security Policy
allImplement strict Content Security Policy headers to limit script execution
Add CSP headers via Apache/nginx configuration or AEM dispatcher
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement web application firewall rules to block XSS payloads
- Restrict low-privileged user access to content editing capabilities
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check AEM version via CRXDE Lite or system console, verify if version is 6.5.22 or earlierCheck Version:
curl -u admin:admin http://localhost:4502/system/console/status-productinfo.json | grep versionVerify Fix Applied:
Verify AEM version is 6.5.23 or later and test form fields with XSS payloads📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual content modifications by low-privileged users
- JavaScript payloads in form submissions
Network Indicators:
- Suspicious script tags in HTTP POST requests to form endpoints
SIEM Query:
source="aem_logs" AND ("script" OR "javascript" OR "onload" OR "onerror") AND user_privilege="low"