CVE-2020-35730

Medium6.1Published on December 28, 2020

An XSS issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.13, 1.3.x before 1.3.16, and 1.4.x before 1.4.10. The attacker can send a plain text e-mail message, with JavaScript in a link reference element that is mishandled by linkref_addindex in rcube_string_replacer.php.

Actively exploited

  • In the CISA exploited-vulnerabilities catalogue since Jun 22, 2023
  • US federal agencies must remediate it by Jul 13, 2023 (BOD 22-01)
  • First attack observed 903 days after disclosure

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Source: CISA KEV · Oct 9, 2025 May 23, 2025 May 23, 2025 May 22, 2025 May 21, 2025 May 15, 2025

CVSS score6.1 / 10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)CWE-79, CWE-79
Vendorsdebian, fedoraproject, roundcube

Affected products

VendorsProductVersions
roundcubewebmail< 1.2.13
fedoraprojectfedora32
debiandebian linux9.0

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