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CVE-2023-48553: 
Adobe Experience Manager vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-48553 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.18 and earlier. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on December 15, 2023 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CWE-79) that could be exploited by a low-privileged attacker. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 5.4 (MEDIUM) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, an attacker could inject malicious scripts into vulnerable form fields. When victims browse to the page containing the vulnerable field, the malicious JavaScript may be executed in their browser context (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Adobe has released patches to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update to the latest version of Adobe Experience Manager (Adobe Advisory).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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