CVE-2025-46979
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedAdobe 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceAdobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.22 and earlier contain a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability where a low-privilege attacker can inject malicious JavaScript into form fields. When victims browse to pages containing the compromised fields, the malicious script executes in their browsers.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< 6.5.23.0< 2025.5.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check Adobe Experience Manager versionAccess the AEM Welcome page or use the versioninfo endpoint (e.g., /system/console/bundles or /crx/packmgr/version.jsp) to determine the exact installed version numberAffected if Installed version is less than 6.5.23.0 or less than 2025.5.0
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Identify exposed form componentsReview the AEM Forms or Adaptive Forms modules installed in the environment by checking /libs/fd/af/ components in the CRX/DE repositoryAffected if Form components that accept user input are published and accessible to low-privilege users
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Verify low-privilege user access to formsReview user permissions in AEM User Admin (useradmin) or Groups console to confirm if standard/contributor users can access and submit form contentAffected if Low-privilege users (contributors or below) have write access to form fields on published pages
Your environment is affected if AEM version is below 6.5.23.0 or below 2025.5.0 AND form fields are accessible to low-privilege users who can submit content that gets stored and rendered to other users.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped6.5.23.02025.5.0
Upgrade Adobe Experience Manager to a version newer than 6.5.22, and implement input validation and output encoding for all user-supplied data in form fields.
Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23.0 or later (6.5.x line); or 2025.5.0 or later (2025.x line)
- 1. Perform a complete backup of the current AEM instance including the repository, database, and configuration files
- 2. Review Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23.0 release notes and upgrade documentation at helpx.adobe.com for any migration requirements or pre-upgrade tasks
- 3. Download Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23.0 (or 2025.5.0 for the newer release line) from the official Adobe Software Distribution portal
- 4. Execute the upgrade following Adobe's standard AEM upgrade procedure
- 5. After completing the upgrade, validate that the stored XSS vulnerability is remediated by testing form fields that were previously vulnerable
- 6. Verify that custom code or integrations continue to function properly post-upgrade
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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- Review / QA6.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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