CVE-2006-3233

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in openwebmail-read.pl in Open WebMail (OWM) 2.52, and other versions released before 06/18/2006, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the from field. NOTE: some third party sources have mentioned the "to" and "from" fields, although CVE analysis shows that these are associated with the previous version, a different executable, and a different CVE.

Affected products

Open Webmail: through 2.52; 1.7, 1.8, 1.71, 1.81, 1.90, 2.5 (+7)

References

http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/dev/svn/index.pl/openwebmail/diff/trunk/src/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-read.pl?rev1=236%3Brev2=237
http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/changes.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20714
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-June/000902.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18598
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2485
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27309
http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/dev/svn/index.pl/openwebmail/diff/trunk/src/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-read.pl?rev1=236%3Brev2=237
http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/changes.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20714
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-June/000902.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18598

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