Stored cross-site scripting in Mailbird - CVE-2019-15054
Published: November 19, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22839
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15054
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing email messages. A remote attacker can add an onmousemove attribute to the hyperlink and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website when the user hovers a malicious link.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Mailbird
How to mitigate CVE-2019-15054
Install update from vendor's website.
Mailbird - update to 2.7.5.0