CVE-2020-9743 (GCVE-0-2020-9743)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-10 16:36 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:28
VLAI
Title
HTML injection in AEM's content editor component
Summary
AEM versions 6.5.5.0 (and below), 6.4.8.1 (and below), 6.3.3.8 (and below) and 6.2 SP1-CFP20 (and below) are affected by an HTML injection vulnerability in the content editor component that allows unauthenticated users to craft an HTTP request that includes arbitrary HTML code in a parameter value. An attacker could then use the malicious GET request to lure victims to perform unsafe actions in the page (ex. phishing).
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Adobe Experience Manager Affected: unspecified , ≤ 6.5.5.0 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 6.4.8.1 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 6.3.3.8 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 6.2 SP1-CFP20 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-09-08 00:00
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