Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9126
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"published_at": "2017-03-28T02:59:00.417+00:00"
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