Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft email with SVG animate attributeName=style payload
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DeliveryDeliver via SMTP to target mailbox
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ExploitVictim opens message in Roundcube HTML view
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ExecutionSanitizer bypass triggers CSS mutation in browser
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PersistExfiltrate styled DOM content or overlay phishing UI
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ImpactCapture session or credentials under webmail origin
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the target Roundcube instance to be running an affected version (1.6.0-1.6.15 or 1.7.0) with HTML message rendering enabled (the default), and the victim must open or preview an attacker-supplied email containing the crafted SVG <animate attributeName="style"> payload - no Roundcube account or authentication is needed on the attacker side because delivery is via ordinary SMTP. Limiting factors: deployments configured to display mail as plain text only are not exploitable, the impact is constrained to the victim's browser session under the webmail origin (not server-side code execution), and CVSS C:L/I:L indicates only partial confidentiality/integrity loss rather than full account takeover absent chaining with further gadgets. |
| Impact | The CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N describes network-reachable, low-complexity exploitation with changed scope and partial confidentiality/integrity impact - consistent with a stored XSS/CSS-injection that fires when a victim opens an attacker-controlled email. However, the UI:N component is debatable for a webmail XSS: realistically a user must open the malicious message, which the vector treats as part of normal browsing rather than 'interaction.' EPSS at 0.04% (14th percentile) and the absence from CISA KEV signal that no broad exploitation is observed, but XSS in webmail is historically attractive for targeted phishing and session theft against high-value mailboxes, so the low EPSS should not be read as 'safe to defer.' SSVC data is not provided. Overall this is a real-but-moderate priority: patch within normal monthly cadence unless the deployment is internet-exposed and hosts privileged users, in which case accelerate. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker emails a target Roundcube user a message containing an SVG block with <animate attributeName="style" ...> that survives the HTML sanitizer; when the victim opens the message in the webmail UI, the animation rewrites the page's CSS to exfiltrate styled content, overlay a credential-harvesting form, or pivot via further script gadgets. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the upstream fix and reporter credit (wooseokdotkim) suggest reproduction details could surface from diffing the patch commits. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jun 08, 2026
CSS injection in Roundcube Webmail 1.6.x (before 1.6.16) and 1.7.x (before 1.7.1) allows remote attackers to bypass the HTML sanitizer by embedding an SVG document with an animate element whose attributeName references style, enabling cross-site scripting style attacks against mail recipients. The flaw carries a CVSS 7.2 (changed scope) with no privileges or user interaction required beyond viewing a crafted message, no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and an EPSS of 0.04% (14th percentile) indicating low predicted exploitation volume despite the trivially-triggerable attack vector.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Roundcube Webmail 1.6.16 (for the 1.6.x branch) or 1.7.1 (for the 1.7.x branch) per https://roundcube.net/news/2026/05/24/security-updates-1.6.16-and-1.7.1; the underlying fix commits are 58e5263 (1.6) and c960d10 (1.7). Distribution users on SUSE or other packaged builds should track their vendor's backport for the equivalent washtml sanitizer change. If immediate patching is not possible, compensating controls include forcing the message preview to plain-text mode (set 'prefer_html' to false in config.inc.php, with the trade-off that users lose rich HTML rendering), disabling display of SVG/remote content via the existing 'show_images' and HTML-display preferences, and fronting the webmail UI with a strict Content-Security-Policy that forbids inline styles and script (note this may break some skins and plugins). Avoid relying on network restrictions alone since exploitation is delivered inside ordinary email and does not require attacker-initiated network access to the server.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Roundcube is a widely deployed PHP-based webmail client; the affected component is its HTML/SVG sanitization layer (washtml/rcube_washtml) which is responsible for stripping dangerous markup from rendered mail bodies before display in a victim's browser. The root cause maps to CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) - specifically a sanitizer-bypass using SVG's <animate> element where the attributeName attribute can be set to 'style', causing the SMIL animation engine to mutate inline CSS at runtime even though static style attributes would have been stripped. Upstream commits c960d10 (1.7 branch) and 58e5263 (1.6 branch) tighten the sanitizer to reject this SVG animation pathway. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers all Roundcube Webmail installations within the affected version ranges.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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CVSS VectorVendor: mitre
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
Roundcube Webmail 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.7.x before 1.7 has insufficient HTML sanitization that could lead to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) injection via an SVG document that has an animate element with the attributeName attribute.
Executive ViewAI
Roundcube Webmail versions 1.6.x (before 1.6.16) and 1.7.x (before 1.7.1) contain a CSS injection vulnerability enabling arbitrary script execution when users view crafted emails with no special privileges or user confirmation required. Organizations running these versions face direct risk to email security and user credentials, as the attack vector requires only viewing a malicious email. Vendor patches are available and should be deployed immediately to close this critical attack vector.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
Roundcube Webmail contains a critical PHP object deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2025-49113, CVSS 9.9) that allows au
Roundcube Webmail before 1.1.10, 1.2.x before 1.2.7, and 1.3.x before 1.3.3 allows unauthorized access to arbitrary file
steps/mail/sendmail.inc in Roundcube before 1.1.7 and 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when no SMTP server is configured and the send
Directory traversal vulnerability in the set_skin function in program/include/rcmail_output_html.php in Roundcube before
rcube_image.php in Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in
Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4 allows attackers to include local files and execute code via directory traversal in a plu
The DBMail driver in the Password plugin in Roundcube before 1.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Roundcube through 1.5.7 and 1.6.x through 1.6.7 allows a remote attacker to stea
Multiple buffer overflows in the DBMail driver in the Password plugin in Roundcube before 1.1.0 allow remote attackers t
Roundcube Webmail allows arbitrary password resets by authenticated users. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerab
Pre-authentication SQL injection in Roundcube Webmail's virtuser_query plugin allows unauthenticated remote attackers to
roundcube version 1.3.4 and earlier contains an Insecure Permissions vulnerability in enigma plugin that can result in e
Same weakness CWE-79 – Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
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SUSE
Severity: High| Product | Status |
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| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
EUVD-2026-31727
GHSA-p64r-9rcj-x33x
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