Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package squirrelmail  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-SQUIRRELMAIL-660898
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed14 Jul 2011

Introduced: 14 Jul 2011

CVE-2010-4555  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream squirrelmail package and not the squirrelmail package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.21 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) drop-down selection lists, (2) the > (greater than) character in the SquirrelSpell spellchecking plugin, and (3) errors associated with the Index Order (aka options_order) page.