CVE-2006-6142

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) mailto parameter in (a) webmail.php, the (2) session and (3) delete_draft parameters in (b) compose.php, and (4) unspecified vectors involving "a shortcoming in the magicHTML filter."

Affected products

SquirrelMail: 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.3_r3, 1.4.3_rc1 (+9)

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2438
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2439
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23195
http://secunia.com/advisories/23322
http://secunia.com/advisories/23409
http://secunia.com/advisories/23504
http://secunia.com/advisories/23811
http://secunia.com/advisories/24004
http://secunia.com/advisories/24284

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