CVE-2023-48555
Adobe Experience Manager vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-48555 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. This security issue impacts both the standard Adobe Experience Manager installations and cloud service versions up to (excluding) 2023.11 (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 to inject malicious scripts into vulnerable form fields. 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

When successfully exploited, malicious JavaScript may be executed in a victim's browser when they browse to the page containing the vulnerable field. This can lead to unauthorized access to user data, session hijacking, or other client-side attacks (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update to the latest version of Adobe Experience Manager. The fix is available in Adobe Experience Manager versions after 6.5.18.0 and Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Service version 2023.11 and later (Adobe Advisory).

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