Medium severity · published Dec 20, 2016
CVE-2016-4552
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the href attribute in an area tag in…
6.1
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the href attribute in an area tag in an e-mail message.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WE
Webmail · Roundcube
1.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4552
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4552
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00101.html
Exploit
https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/5240
Release Notes
https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/wiki/Changelog#release-120
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