Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-2228

Title: Horde Horde Groupware Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-2228.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Apr 13, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.87%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-2228: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in horde/templates/topbar/_menubar.html.php in Horde Groupware before 5.2.12 and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 5.2.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchfield parameter, as demonstrated by a request to xplorer/gollem/manager.php.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14213 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177484.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177584.html http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2016/001148.html http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2016/001149.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3497 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/5 https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/e838d4c800b0d1ecaf8b4cc613fd3af4f994c79c/bundles/webmail/docs/CHANGES https://github.com/horde/horde/commit/ab07a1b447de34e13983b4d7ceb18b58c3a358d8 http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14213 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177484.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177584.html http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2016/001148.html http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2016/001149.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3497 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/5 https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/e838d4c800b0d1ecaf8b4cc613fd3af4f994c79c/bundles/webmail/docs/CHANGES https://github.com/horde/horde/commit/ab07a1b447de34e13983b4d7ceb18b58c3a358d8

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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-2016-2228 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 13, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.