Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.11, 1.3.x before 1.3.14, and 1.4.x before 1.4.7. It allows XSS via a crafted HTML e-mail message, as demonstrated by a JavaScript payload in the xmlns (aka XML namespace) attribute of a HEAD element when an SVG element exists.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15562
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.11, 1.3.x before 1.3.14, and 1.4.x before 1.4.7. It allows XSS via a crafted HTML e-mail message, as demonstrated by a JavaScript payload in the xmlns (aka XML namespace) attribute of a HEAD element when an SVG element exists.
osv:CVE-2020-15562
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:55.337428031Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.3.14",
"https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.4.7",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4720",
"https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/3e8832d029b035e3fcfb4c75839567a9580b4f82"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383130,
"published_at": "2020-07-06T12:15:10.72+00:00"
}