CVE-2020-9743: HTML injection in AEM's content editor component

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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).

Affected products

Adobe Experience Manager: from 6.3.0.0 through 6.3.3.8; from 6.4.0.0 through 6.4.8.1; from 6.5.0.0 through 6.5.5.0; 6.2.0.0-sp1, 6.2.0.0-sp1-cfp1, 6.2.0.0-sp1-cfp10, 6.2.0.0-sp1-cfp11, 6.2.0.0-sp1-cfp12.1, 6.2.0.0-sp1-cfp13 (+15)

References

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