MediumFix available
roundcube — 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
- roundcube
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.4.7+dfsg.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15562
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:05 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:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15562
roundcube
Fixed versions: 1.4.7+dfsg.1-1
roundcube
Fixed versions: 1.4.7+dfsg.1-1
roundcube
Fixed versions: 1.4.7+dfsg.1-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 451758,
"published_at": "2020-07-06T12:15:10.72+00:00"
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