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CVE-2005-2820
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SqWebMail 5.0.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 18% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SqWebMail 5.0.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message containing Internet Explorer "Conditional Comments" such as "[if]" and "[endif]".
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 16704 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- sqwebmail-html-comment-xss(22158) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20050906 Secunia Research: SqWebMail Conditional Comments Script Insertion (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 17156 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-201-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-44/advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-820 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5RP0220GUS.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-2821 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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