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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-22889

Revive Adserver before v5.2.0 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS vulnerability in the `statsBreakdown` parameter of stats.php (and possibly other scripts) due to single quotes not being escaped.

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 30.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 30.5%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Revive Adserver before v5.2.0 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS vulnerability in the `statsBreakdown` parameter of stats.php (and possibly other scripts) due to single quotes not being escaped. An attacker could trick a user with access to the user interface of a Revive Adserver instance into clicking on a specifically crafted URL and pressing a certain key combination to execute injected JavaScript code.

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
30.54% probability · 98th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
revive-adserver/revive adserver
Source
support@hackerone.com
EPSS trend
0%18%35%22 September 2026: 30.54%3 November 2026: 30.54%22 September 20263 November 2026

EPSS moved from 30.5% on 22 September 2026 to 30.5% on 3 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.