CVE-2016-9471: Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver

Low severity, CVSS 3.1. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Revive Adserver before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0 suffers from Special Element Injection. Usernames weren't properly sanitised when creating users on a Revive Adserver instance. Especially, control characters were not filtered, allowing apparently identical usernames to co-exist in the system, due to the fact that such characters are normally ignored when an HTML page is displayed in a browser. The issue could have therefore been exploited for user spoofing, although elevated privileges are required to create users within Revive Adserver.

Affected products

• Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver: up to and including 3.2.4; version 4.0.0 only

Published 2017-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.