Cross-site scripting in SurgeMail - CVE-2012-2575
Published: September 17, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43506
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2575
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: NetWin
Affected software:
SurgeMail
SurgeMail
Detailed vulnerability description
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in NetWin SurgeMail 6.0a4 when processing SRC attribute of an IFRAME element in the body of an HTML e-mail message. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2575
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.