CVE-2025-47114: Adobe Experience Manager XSS Vulnerability

CVE-2025-47114 Overview

CVE-2025-47114 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) versions 6.5.22 and earlier, as well as AEM Cloud Service. The flaw resides in vulnerable form fields that fail to sanitize attacker-supplied input before persisting it to storage. A low-privileged authenticated attacker can inject malicious JavaScript that executes in a victim's browser when the victim renders the affected page. The issue is classified under CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation.

Critical Impact
Successful exploitation allows script execution in the context of a victim's session, enabling session data exposure, unauthorized actions on behalf of the victim, and potential compromise of the AEM administrative interface through user interaction.

Affected Products

Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.22 and earlier (on-premise)
Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Service (AEM as a Cloud Service)
AEM Forms components with unsanitized form field inputs

Discovery Timeline

2025-06-10 - CVE-2025-47114 published to NVD
2025-06-10 - Adobe published Security Advisory APSB25-48
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-47114

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability is a stored XSS flaw in Adobe Experience Manager form field processing. Attacker-controlled input submitted through vulnerable form fields is persisted server-side without adequate output encoding or input neutralization. When a subsequent user loads the page containing that field, the browser interprets the stored payload as executable script rather than inert content.

Exploitation requires low privileges and user interaction, meaning the attacker needs an authenticated account capable of editing or submitting form content, and a victim must browse the affected page. The scope is changed, so the injected script executes in the context of the rendering domain and can impact resources beyond the attacker's initial privilege boundary. Consult the Adobe Security Advisory APSB25-48 for authoritative product details.

Root Cause

The root cause is improper neutralization of user-supplied input during web page generation (CWE-79). AEM's form handling components do not consistently apply contextual output encoding when rendering previously stored form field values. As a result, HTML tags and JavaScript event handlers embedded in stored content are delivered to the browser without escaping.

Attack Vector

The attack vector is network-based and requires an authenticated low-privileged account with permission to author or submit form data. The attacker stores a JavaScript payload in a vulnerable form field. When a higher-privileged user, such as an administrator or content reviewer, loads the page containing the stored payload, the script executes in their browser session. Because scope is changed, the payload can act against the AEM authoring environment or reach cross-origin resources exposed through the rendered page. No verified public exploit code is available at this time.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-47114

Indicators of Compromise

Stored form field values containing HTML tags such as <script>, <img onerror=>, or <svg onload=> where plain text is expected
Unexpected outbound requests from authenticated user browsers to attacker-controlled domains after loading AEM authoring pages
Anomalous session token usage originating from IP addresses inconsistent with the account owner's baseline
New or modified AEM content nodes created shortly after suspicious form submissions

Detection Strategies

Inspect AEM repository content for form field values containing script tags, JavaScript URI schemes, or HTML event handler attributes
Review AEM access logs for POST requests to form endpoints containing encoded script payloads or unusual character sequences
Correlate authoring user activity with unexpected client-side network requests captured by browser telemetry or web proxies
Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) reporting to surface inline script execution attempts within AEM pages

Monitoring Recommendations

Enable verbose logging on AEM Forms components and forward events to a centralized SIEM for correlation
Monitor low-privileged author and contributor accounts for unusual content creation or modification patterns
Track administrator sessions that render pages recently modified by lower-privileged accounts
Alert on repository writes containing script-related keywords across jcr:content nodes belonging to form components

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-47114

Immediate Actions Required

Apply the Adobe security update referenced in APSB25-48 to all on-premise AEM 6.5.x deployments
Verify AEM as a Cloud Service instances are running the patched release provided by Adobe
Audit existing form field content for previously injected payloads and remove any malicious entries
Rotate authentication credentials for accounts that may have executed injected scripts in privileged sessions

Patch Information

Adobe released fixes as part of Security Advisory APSB25-48. Customers running AEM 6.5.22 or earlier must upgrade to the patched service pack indicated in the advisory. AEM Cloud Service customers receive the fix through Adobe's managed release cycle.

Workarounds

Restrict form authoring permissions to trusted users until the patch is applied
Deploy a strict Content Security Policy that disallows inline script execution on AEM-rendered pages
Place a Web Application Firewall (WAF) in front of AEM authoring endpoints with rules that block script tags and JavaScript URI schemes in form submissions
Sanitize existing stored form data using AEM's built-in XSS protection APIs before rendering

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# Example CSP header to mitigate stored XSS execution
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; frame-ancestors 'self'