CVE-2023-43770

Roundcube Webmail Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

  • Medium 6.1
  • Exploited: added to CISA KEV 12 Feb 2024

Description

Roundcube before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 allows XSS via text/plain e-mail messages with crafted links because of program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_string_replacer.php behavior.

Key facts

Published
22 Sep 2023
Last changed
21 Oct 2025
Assigned by
mitre
KEV added
12 Feb 2024
KEV fix due
4 Mar 2024
EPSS
63.66% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 99.23% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)
SSVC (CISA)
Exploitation: active; Automatable: no; Technical impact: partial

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

  • 6.1CVSS 3.1, Mediumfrom CISA (ADP container)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What to do

  • Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

This reference retains the original CVE publication date. A recent record update does not mean a new attack occurred.

No separately sourced impact summary is available on this page yet. Consult the description, version data and dated exploitation evidence.

Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

Read the original CVE record.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/a
  • n/a (affected)

Timeline

  1. 22 Sep 2023 Published
  2. 12 Feb 2024 CVE-2023-43770 added to CISA KEV
  3. 12 Feb 2024 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

Practice this bug class

HackZoneLabs has a hands-on lab on XSS (stored, reflected, DOM) (CWE-79).

References