gsd-2016-7966
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
Through a malicious URL that contained a quote character it was possible to inject HTML code in KMail's plaintext viewer. Due to the parser used on the URL it was not possible to include the equal sign (=) or a space into the injected HTML, which greatly reduces the available HTML functionality. Although it is possible to include an HTML comment indicator to hide content.
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Aliases
CVE-2016-7966


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    "id": "GSD-2016-7966",
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2016-12-27T18:42Z",
      "publishedDate": "2016-12-23T22:59Z"
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