Stored cross-site scripting in Roundcube Webmail - CVE-2020-35730
Published: December 28, 2020 / Updated: June 20, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU49153
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-35730
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
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. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted email message in HTML or plain text and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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.
Affected software
Roundcube Webmail
Arch Linux
Fedora
roundcube (Debian package)
roundcubemail
Arch Linux
Fedora
roundcube (Debian package)
roundcubemail
How to mitigate CVE-2020-35730
Install updates from vendor's website.
Roundcube Webmail - addressed in versions 1.2.13, 1.3.16, 1.4.10
roundcube (Debian package) - update to 1.3.16+dfsg.1-1~deb10u1
roundcubemail - addressed in versions 1.4.10-1.fc32, 1.4.10-1.fc33
roundcube (Debian package) - update to 1.3.16+dfsg.1-1~deb10u1
roundcubemail - addressed in versions 1.4.10-1.fc32, 1.4.10-1.fc33