CVE-2016-2228

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in horde/templates/topbar/_menubar.html.php in Horde Groupware before 5.2.12 and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 5.2.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchfield parameter, as demonstrated by a request to xplorer/gollem/manager.php.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Horde Groupware: through 5.2.11
Horde Groupware: through 5.2.11

References

http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14213
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177484.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177584.html
http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2016/001148.html
http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2016/001149.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3497
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/5
https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/e838d4c800b0d1ecaf8b4cc613fd3af4f994c79c/bundles/webmail/docs/CHANGES
https://github.com/horde/horde/commit/ab07a1b447de34e13983b4d7ceb18b58c3a358d8
http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14213
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177484.html

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