CVE-2018-14951 (GCVE-0-2018-14951)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-05 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:46
VLAI
Summary
The mail message display page in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 has XSS via a "<form action='data:text" attack.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-08-05 00:00
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