CVE-2019-12970

squirrelmail: improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements causing XSS

Published Jul 1, 2019 CVSS 3.0 · 6.1 Medium EPSS 1.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1868-1 squirrelmail security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-4545 XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4669-1 SquirrelMail vulnerability
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:41 PM
Reserved
Jun 26, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 1, 2019, 11:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:15 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jul 1, 2019, 12:00 AM