CVE-2021-21084 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2021-21084

Adobe Experience Manager stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in resource resolver factory could lead to arbitrary code execution

Vulnerability Description

AEM's Cloud Service offering, as well as versions 6.5.7.0 (and below), 6.4.8.3 (and below) and 6.3.3.8 (and below) are affected by a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could be abused by an attacker to inject malicious scripts into vulnerable form fields. Malicious JavaScript may be executed in a victim’s browser when they browse to the page containing the vulnerable field.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Experience Manager
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified

Timeline

Official Publish: June 28th, 2021
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise
Initial Access
T1059.007 JavaScript
Execution
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
Collection
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
Exfiltration
T1491.001 Defacement
Impact