CVE-2025-54253

10.0

CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

Adobe Experience Manager Code Execution Vulnerability

Description

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23 and earlier are affected by a Misconfiguration vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security mechanisms and execute code. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction and scope is changed.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 5, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 13, 2025, 6:56 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-54253 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID	Vendor	Product	Action
1	Adobe	experience_manager
2	Adobe	experience_manager_forms

: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 2

CVSS Scores

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.

Score	Version	Severity	Vector	Exploitability Score	Impact Score	Source
	CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL				[email protected]

Solution

Update Adobe Experience Manager to patch the misconfiguration vulnerability.

Update Adobe Experience Manager to version 6.5.24 or later.
Review Adobe's security advisories for specific configuration guidance.
Apply security hardening best practices for AEM deployments.

Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2025-54253 has a 5 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2025-54253.

URL	Resource
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/aem-forms/apsb25-82.html	Vendor Advisory
https://slcyber.io/assetnote-security-research-center/struts-devmode-in-2025-critical-pre-auth-vulnerabilities-in-adobe-experience-manager-forms/	Exploit Third Party Advisory

CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-54253 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2025-54253 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

jm7knz/CVE-2025-54253-Exploit-Demo

🐙 CVE-2025-54253 exploit demo for Adobe AEM Forms on JEE: OGNL injection to RCE with PoC, Python 3.10 exploit code, reproducer and mitigation guidance.

aem-forms-on-jee curl cve-2025-54253 cybersecurity ethical-hacking exploit local-testing offensive-security ognl-injection-vulnerability penetration-testing poc proof-of-concept rce red-team remote-code-execution vmware-lab vulnerability-research

Python

Updated: 1 day, 3 hours ago

0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher

Born at : Aug. 17, 2025, 10:04 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

barbaraeivyu/CVE-2025-54253-e

None

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher

Born at : Aug. 7, 2025, 8:39 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Shivshantp/CVE-2025-54253-Exploit-Demo

Simulated PoC for CVE-2025-54253: Adobe AEM OGNL Injection Vulnerability

adobe-aem curl cybersecurity ethical-hacking exploit infosec local-testing offensive-security ognl-injection-vulnerability penetration-testing poc proof-of-concept rce red-team remote-code-execution vulnerability-research aem-forms-on-jee cve-2025-54253 vmware-lab

Python

Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher

Born at : Aug. 6, 2025, 7:28 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

B1ack4sh/Blackash-CVE-2025-54253

CVE-2025-54253

Updated: 3 weeks ago

0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher

Born at : Aug. 6, 2025, 10:37 a.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub

📡 PoC auto collect from GitHub. ⚠️ Be careful Malware.

security cve exploit poc vulnerability

Updated: 7 hours, 43 minutes ago

7221 stars 1200 fork 1200 watcher

Born at : Dec. 8, 2019, 1:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 804 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

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