GFI Archiver up to 15.12 Retention Policy RetentionPolicyWizard.aspx RetentionPolicyWizard.SaveAllConfigSettings policy name cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in GFI Archiver up to 15.12. It has been declared as problematic. This issue affects the function RetentionPolicyWizard.SaveAllConfigSettings of the file /Archiver/RetentionPolicyWizard.aspx of the component Retention Policy. Executing a manipulation of the argument policy name can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-48531. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability has been found in GFI Archiver up to 15.12 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function RetentionPolicyWizard.SaveAllConfigSettings of the file /Archiver/RetentionPolicyWizard.aspx of the component Retention Policy. The manipulation of the argument policy name with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

GFI Archiver before 15.13 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Retention Policy configuration that allows authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the policy name parameter to /Archiver/RetentionPolicyWizard.aspx. The injected payload is stored by RetentionPolicyWizard.SaveAllConfigSettings() without output encoding and is executed in the browsers of users who subsequently view the Retention and Spam Policies page.

The advisory is available at gfi.ai. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-48531 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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Upgrading to version 15.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• GFI

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• Archiver

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• 15.0
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.3
• 15.4
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.7
• 15.8
• 15.9
• 15.10
• 15.11
• 15.12

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