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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-9126

Revive Adserver before 3.2.3 suffers from persistent XSS. Usernames are not properly escaped when displayed in the audit trail widget of the dashboard upon login, allowing persistent XSS attacks. An authenticated user with enough privileges to create other users could exploit the vulnerability to access the administrator account.

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CVE-2016-9126
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31 Oct 2026, 09:55 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-9126

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Mar 2017, 02:59 UTC

Revive Adserver before 3.2.3 suffers from persistent XSS. Usernames are not properly escaped when displayed in the audit trail widget of the dashboard upon login, allowing persistent XSS attacks. An authenticated user with enough privileges to create other users could exploit the vulnerability to access the administrator account.

osv:CVE-2016-9126
Complete source record
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