GSD-2019-12970

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
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XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element.
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CVE-2019-12970
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      "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12970",
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