Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jul 1, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-12970
CVE-2019-12970
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.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.4.22
- (no CPE)range: <=1.4.22, <=1.5.2
- SquirrelMail/SquirrelMaildescription
Patches
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References
5- packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlnvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0nvdExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txtnvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.htmlnvd
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50nvd
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