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CVE-2008-4045

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in @Mail 5.42 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) file and (2) HelpFile parameters to parse.php, the (3) Folder and (4) start parameters to showmail.php, and the (5) abookview parameter to abook.php.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

@mail — @mail

CWEs

References

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