Cross-site scripting in Adobe Experience Manager - CVE-2016-4170

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by incorrect filtration of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim’s browser in security context of vulnerable website or redirect victim to arbitrary website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-4170

The vendor has issued fixes to address this vulnerability:

Hotfix 10936 for 6.2
Hotfix 10936 for 6.1
Hotfix 10936 for 6.0
Hotfix 10936 for 5.6.1

Sources

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb16-27.html