critical Known exploitedREV. 01
CVE-2025-54253Adobe Experience Manager Forms — misconfiguration to execution
Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.23 and earlier ship a development setting left enabled, which an attacker uses to get past the product's own checks and run code on the forms server. No user interaction is needed.
Read the risk
THE VITAL STATS- CVSS score
- 10.0/ 10 CVSS v3.1
- EPSS probability
- 88% Likelihood of exploitation
- Attack complexity
- Low Conditions needed to exploit
- Known exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- CVE published
- 2025-08-05
- Added to KEV
- 2025-10-15
- Exploit published
- Yes
- Confidence
- high
- Kill chain
- initial access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190
- Severity
- critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attacker needsNetwork access to the Experience Manager Forms server; no credentials needed.
Behind the card
5 REFERENCES- 01CVE recordNVD recordnvd.nist.gov
- 02CISACISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogcisa.gov
- 03Vendor advisoryhelpx.adobe.comhelpx.adobe.com
- 04Exploitslcyber.ioslcyber.io
- 05Writeupcisa.govcisa.gov
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +
Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.
| Fields | Source | Retrieved | Extractor | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_at | nvd.nist.gov | 2026-09-24 | scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1 | high |
| exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_added | cisa.gov | 2026-09-24 | scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1 | high |
| epss | api.first.org | 2026-09-24 | scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1 | high |
| title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisites | nvd.nist.gov | 2026-09-24 | claude-code | high |
Printing history
THE RECORD- r1Initial base card
First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.