CVE-2025-54251: 
Adobe Experience Manager vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-54251 is an XML Injection vulnerability affecting Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) versions 6.5.23.0 and earlier, discovered and disclosed on September 09, 2025. The vulnerability could result in a security feature bypass, potentially allowing low-privileged attackers to manipulate XML queries and gain limited unauthorized write access (Adobe Security, AttackerKB).

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (Medium severity) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs low-level privileges, and requires no user interaction. The impact primarily affects integrity with low severity, while confidentiality and availability remain unaffected (Adobe Security).

The vulnerability allows attackers with low-level privileges to perform XML injection attacks against Adobe Experience Manager, potentially leading to security feature bypass and limited unauthorized write access to the system. The impact is primarily focused on system integrity, though the scope is limited (CIS Advisory).

Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Organizations are advised to update their Adobe Experience Manager installations to versions later than 6.5.23.0. The update should be applied after appropriate testing in accordance with organizational change management procedures (Adobe Security).