2025-10-31 13:53CVE-2025-12460ESET
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-79

Stored XSS vulnerability in Afterlogic Aurora webmail

An XSS issue was discovered in Afterlogic Aurora webmail version 9.8.3 and below. An attacker can send a specially crafted HTML e-mail message with JavaScript in an img HTML tag. This could allow a remote attacker to load arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of a webmail user's browser window, and access user data.

Problem type

Affected products

Afterlogic

Aurora

<= 9.8.3 - AFFECTED

References

GitHub Security Advisories

GHSA-vc68-c4h2-5g4j

An XSS issue was discovered in Afterlogic Aurora webmail version 9.8.3 and below. An attacker can...

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vc68-c4h2-5g4j

An XSS issue was discovered in Afterlogic Aurora webmail version 9.8.3 and below. An attacker can send a specially crafted HTML e-mail message with JavaScript in an img HTML tag. This could allow a remote attacker to load arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of a webmail user's browser window, and access user data.

JSON source

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Mitre source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-12460