CVE-2025-64539
Published: 10 December 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-64539 is a critical-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 42.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-15 (Information Output Filtering) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Flaw remediation requires applying Adobe's patches from APSB25-115 to directly eliminate the DOM-based XSS vulnerability in Experience Manager.
Information output filtering encodes or sanitizes web page outputs to prevent injected malicious scripts from executing in victims' browsers.
Information input validation detects and blocks malicious script payloads before they reach the DOM manipulation logic in the vulnerable application.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
DOM-based XSS in public-facing Adobe Experience Manager enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190), arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser (T1059.007), and session takeover via stealing web session cookies (T1539).
NVD Description
Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23 and earlier are affected by a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious scripts into a web page that are executed…
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in the context of the victim's browser. A successful attacker can abuse this to achieve session takeover, increasing the confidentiality and integrity impact as high. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must visit a crafted malicious page.
Deeper analysisAI
Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23 and earlier are affected by CVE-2025-64539, a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability mapped to CWE-79. Published on 2025-12-10T19:16:15.310, this flaw allows arbitrary code execution when malicious scripts are injected into a web page and executed in the victim's browser context. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N), indicating critical severity due to high confidentiality and integrity impacts.
Remote attackers require no privileges and can exploit this over the network with low complexity, but it demands user interaction as victims must visit a crafted malicious page. Successful exploitation enables session takeover by executing scripts in the browser context, potentially compromising sensitive data and enabling further malicious actions without impacting availability.
Adobe has published security bulletin APSB25-115 at https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb25-115.html, which provides details on patches and mitigations for affected versions.
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