Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3508

Title: Roundcube Webmail Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-3508

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Aug 25, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3508: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in program/lib/washtml.php in Roundcube Webmail 0.8.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by using "javascript:" in an href attribute in the body of an HTML-formatted email.

Impacted Vendors

cobalt 1

roundcube 1

vdesk 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/50279 http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=139281&id=309011 http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1488613 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/9 http://www.securelist.com/en/advisories/50279 https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/5ef8e4ad9d3ee8689d2b83750aa65395b7cd59ee http://secunia.com/advisories/50279 http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=139281&id=309011 http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1488613 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/9 http://www.securelist.com/en/advisories/50279 https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/5ef8e4ad9d3ee8689d2b83750aa65395b7cd59ee

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-2012-3508 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20549

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 25, 2012 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.