CVE-2025-54253
Adobe Experience Manager Forms Code Execution Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 5 November 2025). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 10.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 88.77% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 15 October 2025 · due 5 November 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Affected
- adobe/experience manager forms
- Source
- psirt@adobe.com
EPSS 88.8% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/aem-forms/apsb25-82.html ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54253
References
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/aem-forms/apsb25-82.htmlVendor 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
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-54253Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.