CVE-2023-43770 (GCVE-0-2023-43770)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-22 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 23:05
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Roundcube before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 allows XSS via text/plain e-mail messages with crafted links because of program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_string_replacer.php behavior.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
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Date added: 2024-02-12

Due date: 2024-03-04

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://roundcube.net/news/2023/09/15/security-update-1.6.3-released ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43770

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