Cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager - CVE-2016-7882
Published: December 14, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU1301
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7882
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input in WCMDebug filter. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting this page and execute arbitrary HTML and JavaScript code in victim’s browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks as well as steal victim’s cookies.
Affected software
Adobe Experience Manager
How to mitigate CVE-2016-7882
To resolve the vulnerability, please install the following patch:
Adobe Experience Manager 6.2:
https://www.adobeaemcloud.com/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packagePath=/content/compani...
Adobe Experience Manager 6.1:
https://www.adobeaemcloud.com/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packagePath=/content/compani...
Adobe Experience Manager 6.0:
https://www.adobeaemcloud.com/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packagePath=/content/compani...
Adobe Experience Manager 6.2:
https://www.adobeaemcloud.com/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packagePath=/content/compani...
Adobe Experience Manager 6.1:
https://www.adobeaemcloud.com/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packagePath=/content/compani...
Adobe Experience Manager 6.0:
https://www.adobeaemcloud.com/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packagePath=/content/compani...