CVE-2019-12970
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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 (3)
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references (21)
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- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12970cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160442/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-4669-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0cnnvd
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50cnnvd
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1868-1/cnnvd
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