VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4668

medium
Published 2012-08-25 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail 0.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the signature in an email.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-20549 webapps php verified
Shai rod · 2012-08-16

Roundcube Webmail 0.8.0 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.7.2-4
debian debianbullseyefixed0.7.2-4
debian debiansidfixed0.7.2-4
debian debiantrixiefixed0.7.2-4
debian debianforkyfixed0.7.2-4

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
roundcubewebmail{"endIncluding":"0.8.1"}
roundcubewebmail0.1
roundcubewebmail0.1.1
roundcubewebmail0.2
roundcubewebmail0.2.1
roundcubewebmail0.2.2
roundcubewebmail0.3
roundcubewebmail0.3.1
roundcubewebmail0.4
roundcubewebmail0.4.1
roundcubewebmail0.4.2
roundcubewebmail0.5
roundcubewebmail0.5.1
roundcubewebmail0.5.2
roundcubewebmail0.5.3
roundcubewebmail0.5.4
roundcubewebmail0.6
roundcubewebmail0.7
roundcubewebmail0.7.1
roundcubewebmail0.7.2
roundcubewebmail0.7.3
roundcubewebmail0.8.0

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.