Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-4668

Title: Roundcube Webmail Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-4668

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)

3.72%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-4668: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail 0.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the signature in an email.

Impacted Vendors

vdesk 1

cobalt 1

roundcube 1

Reference Links

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 https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/c086978f6a91eacb339fd2976202fca9dad2ef32 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 https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/c086978f6a91eacb339fd2976202fca9dad2ef32

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-2012-4668 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.