Description
Adobe Experience Manager is affected by a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this issue by manipulating the DOM environment to execute malicious JavaScript within the context of the victim's browser. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must visit a crafted webpage. Scope is changed.
Published: 2026-09-08
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Cross-site Scripting
Action: Patch
AI Analysis

Impact

Adobe Experience Manager is affected by a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting flaw that allows an attacker to manipulate the DOM environment and execute malicious JavaScript in the victim’s browser when the user visits a crafted webpage. The attack requires user interaction and can run arbitrary code within the browser context, potentially compromising the user’s session or data.

Affected Systems

Adobe Experience Manager 6.5, Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 LTS, and Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service are listed as affected. No specific patch versions are provided in the advisory, but all of the mentioned products are impacted.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 5.4 indicates moderate overall risk. The EPSS score is not available and the vulnerability is not in the CISA KEV catalog, suggesting limited evidence of active exploitation. Exploitation requires the victim to load a malicious URL, so a user-interaction attack model applies, and the impact is confined to the victim’s browser session.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 9, 2026 at 12:07 UTC.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Apply the latest Adobe security patch for Experience Manager 6.5, 6.5 LTS, and the Cloud Service as described in Adobe’s advisory.
  • When a patch is unavailable, limit user input that is rendered without encoding or sanitization, and enforce strict client-side validation to prevent execution of injected scripts.
  • Deploy a Web Application Firewall rule that blocks or sanitizes suspicious URL parameters or script patterns associated with DOM-based XSS.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 9, 2026 at 12:07 UTC.

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Advisories

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History

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Adobe
Adobe experience Manager
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:*:*:*:*:aem_cloud_service:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:6.5:-:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:6.5:sp1:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:experience_manager:6.5:sp2:*:*:lts:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Adobe
Adobe experience Manager

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Adobe Experience Manager is affected by a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this issue by manipulating the DOM environment to execute malicious JavaScript within the context of the victim's browser. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must visit a crafted webpage. Scope is changed.
Title Adobe Experience Manager | Cross-site Scripting (DOM-based XSS) (CWE-79)
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


Subscriptions

Adobe Experience Manager
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-11T13:46:25.475Z

Reserved: 2026-08-18T01:29:54.616Z

Link: CVE-2026-75674

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-11T13:39:24.926Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-09-08T20:18:15.630

Modified: 2026-09-11T14:17:33.553

Link: CVE-2026-75674

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-27T14:15:14Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-79

    Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')