Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3823

Title: Horde Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-3823

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Sep 12, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.98%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3823: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MIME/MIME/Contents.php in the MIME library in Horde 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename of a MIME attachment in an e-mail message.

Impacted Vendors

horde 1

debian 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=122104360019867&w=2 http://ocert.org/patches/2008-012/MIME.patch http://secunia.com/advisories/31842 http://secunia.com/advisories/31959 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4245 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1642 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-012.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/10/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496182/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31110 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2548 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45030 http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=122104360019867&w=2 http://ocert.org/patches/2008-012/MIME.patch http://secunia.com/advisories/31842 http://secunia.com/advisories/31959 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4245 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1642 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-012.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/10/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496182/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31110 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2548 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45030

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-3823 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32354

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 12, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.