GFI Archiver up to 15.12 File History Retention Policy Configuration FAARetentionPolicyWizard.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 rated as problematic. Impacted is the function RetentionPolicyWizard.SaveAllConfigSettings of the file /Archiver/FAARetentionPolicyWizard.aspx of the component File History Retention Policy Configuration. The manipulation of the argument policy name leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-48532. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in GFI Archiver up to 15.12 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function RetentionPolicyWizard.SaveAllConfigSettings of the file /Archiver/FAARetentionPolicyWizard.aspx of the component File History Retention Policy Configuration. The manipulation of the argument policy name with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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

It is possible to read the advisory at gfi.ai. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-48532 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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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