CVE-2023-5631 (GCVE-0-2023-5631)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-18 14:51 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:05
VLAI
Title
Stored XSS vulnerability in Roundcube
Summary
Roundcube before 1.4.15, 1.5.x before 1.5.5, and 1.6.x before 1.6.4 allows stored XSS via an HTML e-mail message with a crafted SVG document because of program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_washtml.php behavior. This could allow a remote attacker to load arbitrary JavaScript code.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2023-11-15 16:39 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Roundcube Roundcubemail Affected: 1.6.0 , < 1.6.3 (semver)
Affected: 1.5.0 , < 1.5.4 (semver)
Affected: 1.4.0 , < 1.5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 1.6.4
Unaffected: 1.5.5
Unaffected: 1.5.15
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Credits
Matthieu Faou Denys Klymenko Aleksander Machniak
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