CVE-2011-3635

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme_adium_append_message function in empathy-theme-adium.c in the Adium theme in libempathy-gtk in Empathy 3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted alias (aka nickname).

Affected products

GNOME Empathy: through 3.2.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+127)

References

http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=739aca418457de752be13721218aaebc74bd9d36
http://osvdb.org/76485
http://secunia.com/advisories/46510
http://secunia.com/advisories/46939
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50323
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662035
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747599
http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=739aca418457de752be13721218aaebc74bd9d36
http://osvdb.org/76485
http://secunia.com/advisories/46510
http://secunia.com/advisories/46939
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50323

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