Photoshop Elements vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product25 versions
The short answer

Photoshop Elements is made by Adobe. We track 5 published vulnerabilities in it, across 25 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Photoshop Elements, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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None of Photoshop Elements's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Photoshop Elements flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 14%

    Multiple buffer overflows in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1)...

    CVSS9.3Published4 Oct 2011
  2. 2.0%

    Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 installs the Adobe Active File Monitor V8 service with an insecure security descriptor, which allows local users to (1) stop the service via the stop command, (2) execute arbitrary...

    CVSS7.8Published30 Sep 2009
  3. 1.8%

    Photoshop Elements versions 2021 build 19.0 (20210304.m.156367) (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

    CVSS7.8Published27 Sep 2021
  4. 0.5%

    Adobe Photoshop Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability.

    CVSS5.5Published28 Jun 2021
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We track 5 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Photoshop Elements, across 25 versions.

None of Photoshop Elements's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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