CVE-2020-35730
Published 2020-12-28 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source cve@mitre.org
Summary
CVE-2020-35730 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability in Roundcube Roundcube Webmail. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 22, 2023, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by July 13, 2023. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Roundcube has 11 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 11 known-exploited Roundcube vulnerabilities →Description
An XSS issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.13, 1.3.x before 1.3.16, and 1.4.x before 1.4.10. The attacker can send a plain text e-mail message, with JavaScript in a link reference element that is mishandled by linkref_addindex in rcube_string_replacer.php.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Roundcube — Roundcube Webmail
Name: Roundcube Webmail Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
Date added: 2023-06-22 · Due: 2023-07-13
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=978491
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/compare/1.4.9...1.4.10
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.2.13
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.3.16
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.4.10
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HCEU4BM5WGIDJWP6Z4PCH62ZMH57QYM2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HMLIZWKMTRCLU7KZLEQHELS4INXJ7X5Q/
- https://roundcube.net/download/

