Last week, Adobe said it would -- one is in Flash Professional, two in Photoshop and five in Illustrator -- and told customers to upgrade to the Creative Suite 6 (CS6) editions if they wanted the patches.

Adobe launched CS6 last month.

The steep upgrade prices, however, triggered anger among users and incredulousness among security researchers.

"For all that they have been doing to revise their face of security, this just brings them right back into the dunce cap seat," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security, in a Friday interview before Adobe changed its tune.

Upgrade prices for the three applications range from $99 for Flash Professional to $249 for Illustrator, while an upgrade to CS6 Design & Web Premium, the least-expensive edition that includes all three, costs $375.