CVE-2020-9743

HTML injection in AEM's content editor component

MEDIUM
6.1
CVSS Score
Published: September 10, 2020 at 04:36 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:28 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorExperience Manager

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Severity
MEDIUM6.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

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

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20CWE-79

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