Security advisory
Revive Adserver before 5.1.0 is vulnerable to open redirects via the `dest`, `oadest`, and/or `ct0` parameters of the lg.php and ck.php delivery scripts. Such open redirects had previously been available by design to allow third party ad servers to track such metrics when delivering ads. However, third party click tracking via redirects is not a viable option anymore, leading to such open redirect functionality being removed and reclassified as a vulnerability.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22873
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Revive Adserver before 5.1.0 is vulnerable to open redirects via the `dest`, `oadest`, and/or `ct0` parameters of the lg.php and ck.php delivery scripts. Such open redirects had previously been available by design to allow third party ad servers to track such metrics when delivering ads. However, third party click tracking via redirects is not a viable option anymore, leading to such open redirect functionality being removed and reclassified as a vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2021-22873
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:31.197820142Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2021-001/",
"https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/issues/1068",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/1081406"
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