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CVE-2026-75689

Critical Stored XSS in Adobe Connect Could Hijack Victim Sessions

CVSS 3.1
9.3 critical
EPSS
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Published
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Modified
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Adobe Connect, Adobe's web conferencing and virtual-training platform, contains a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw (CWE-79) in which an attacker can permanently inject malicious JavaScript into vulnerable form fields. The malicious script executes in a victim's browser when they visit the page containing the injected content, requiring only that the victim interact with the poisoned page (UI:R) with no privileges needed from the attacker (PR:N). Because the vulnerability's scope is changed (S:C) with high confidentiality and integrity impact, successful exploitation can allow the attacker to steal session tokens and gain elevated access or full control over the victim's account — particularly damaging if the victim is a meeting host or administrator. Both Adobe-hosted (SaaS) and on-premises/licensed Adobe Connect deployments are the affected product family, though the exact vulnerable versions were not stated in the source data and should be confirmed against Adobe's security bulletin. No public proof-of-concept exists, the flaw is not on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, and no exploitation in the wild has been reported.

What to do: Apply the fixed version identified in Adobe's security bulletin for this CVE as soon as it is available, prioritizing on-premises/licensed deployments that do not auto-update — Adobe-hosted SaaS instances are typically patched by Adobe directly. Until patched, restrict who can submit content to meeting forms and profile/poll/chat fields that render to other participants, and review those fields for unexpected injected scripts. Monitor for anomalous session activity by hosts and administrators, since successful exploitation yields account or session takeover, and consider resetting credentials for any account observed interacting with suspicious injected content.

ProductAffected
Adobe Connect—
Estimated exposure
large≈100,000–1,000,000+ users across Adobe-hosted and on-prem deployments, with on the order of 1,000–3,000 internet-exposed self-hosted server instances — Adobe Connect is a long-established mid-tier web conferencing platform used widely in education, government, and enterprise training, with the majority of users on Adobe's hosted SaaS instances and a comparatively small number of…

Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.

Description · NVD

Adobe Connect is affected by a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could be abused by an attacker to inject malicious scripts into vulnerable form fields. Malicious JavaScript may be executed in a victim's browser when they browse to the page containing the vulnerable field, potentially gaining elevated access or control over the victim's account or session. Scope is changed.

Vendors
adobe
Products
connect, connect for mobile
Weakness
CWE-79
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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