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CVE-2016-9126

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

• Revive Adserver: through 3.2.2

References

• https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/8d8c6df309ff5fde9dd4770abcd4ec5d2449b3ec
• https://hackerone.com/reports/97073
• https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-001/
• https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/8d8c6df309ff5fde9dd4770abcd4ec5d2449b3ec
• https://hackerone.com/reports/97073
• https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-001/

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