Medium severity · published Mar 28, 2017
CVE-2016-9126
Revive Adserver before 3.2.3 suffers from persistent XSS
5.4
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Revive Adserver · Revive-adserver
through 3.2.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9126
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9126
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/8d8c6df309ff5fde9dd4770abcd4ec5d2449b3ec
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/97073
Patch
https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-001/
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