# CVE-2025-54251: Adobe Experience Manager - XML Injection

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-54251 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-54251

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 4.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Adobe Experience Manager
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-91 (XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection))
- **Tags:** cms

## Description

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23.0 and earlier are affected by an XML Injection vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. A low-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to manipulate XML queries and gain limited unauthorized write access.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-54251](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54251) is an XML Injection vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23.0 and earlier, which could allow low-privileged attackers to bypass security features and manipulate XML queries. Exploiting this flaw may enable unauthorized users to gain limited write access, potentially leading to unauthorized data modifications within the application.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 15th of October 2025.

According to CrowdSec data, while opportunistic exploitation dominates, a portion of threat actors trying to exploit CVE-2025-54251 apply basic targeting methods such as port or service detection. This indicates emerging patterns of selective targeting.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2025-54251 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-54251 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Attackers exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted multipart POST requests to the `/crx/packmgr/service/exec.json` endpoint, attempting to upload ZIP files containing malicious XML payloads for XML injection.

## Timeline

- 2025-09-09: CVE Published. CVE-2025-54251 is published to NVD.
- 2025-10-15: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-54251 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-10-28: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-54251 for the first time.

## References

- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb25-90.html
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-54251.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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