Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-4363

Title: Horde Application Framework Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-4363.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Dec 21, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-4363: Text_Filter/lib/Horde/Text/Filter/Xss.php in Horde Application Framework before 3.3.6, Horde Groupware before 1.2.5, and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 1.2.5 does not properly handle data: URIs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via data:text/html values for the HREF attribute of an A element in an HTML e-mail message. NOTE: the vendor states that the issue is caused by "an XSS vulnerability in Firefox browsers."

Impacted Vendors

N
nulllogic 1
H
handysoft 1
H
horde 2

Reference Links

http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8715 http://bugs.horde.org/view.php?actionID=view_file&type=patch&file=0002-Bug-8715-Fix-XSS-vulnerability%5B1%5D.patch&ticket=8715 http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/horde/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.515.2.559&r2=1.515.2.589&ty=h http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2009/000529.html http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=126100750018478&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=126101076422179&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023365 http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8715 http://bugs.horde.org/view.php?actionID=view_file&type=patch&file=0002-Bug-8715-Fix-XSS-vulnerability%5B1%5D.patch&ticket=8715 http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/horde/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.515.2.559&r2=1.515.2.589&ty=h http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2009/000529.html http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=126100750018478&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=126101076422179&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023365
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-2009-4363 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.