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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-4552

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the href attribute in an area tag in an e-mail message.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:40 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-4552

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Dec 2016, 22:59 UTC

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the href attribute in an area tag in an e-mail message.

osv:CVE-2016-4552
Complete source record
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  "id": "1a04bd82144e7e852418e6576f525da55651a9c45dae89c487a24b8494960db0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4552",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-4552",
    "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the href attribute in an area tag in an e-mail message.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-4552",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-4552",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "3b77a54ecd11a10856d31467cfdeaf7ac38d7728"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "3b77a54ecd11a10856d31467cfdeaf7ac38d7728"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:1.2:rc:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.2-rc"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.2-rc"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.2-rc"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4552.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:29.870364953Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/wiki/Changelog#release-120",
        "https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/5240"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-4552",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379434,
  "published_at": "2016-12-20T22:59:00.227+00:00"
}