Horde IMP before 7.2.0 Stored Cross-Site Scripting via AppleDouble Viewer Part Name
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Active
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Horde IMP's AppleDouble MIME viewer writes an attacker-controlled attachment name into an HTML status block without escaping it. In lib/Mime/Viewer/Appledouble.php, _IMPrender() obtains the name of the data part with IMP_Contents::getPartName(), which returns the MIME part's own name parameter as supplied by the message, and passes it through sprintf into the text of an IMP_Mime_Status object. IMP_Mime_Status::__toString() concatenates each text entry directly into the surrounding table markup, so the value reaches the rendered page verbatim. A message crafted as multipart/appledouble whose data part carries markup in its name parameter therefore executes script in the context of any user who views it, and the payload persists in the mailbox. Exploitation requires no account on the target system, only the ability to send mail to a user. Version 7.2.0 escapes the value with htmlspecialchars(). The researcher additionally chains this flaw with the arbitrary file read of CVE-2026-58451, and reports that script running in an administrator's session can reach an application code-execution path.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA imp (horde) Fixed in 7.2.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-65053
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8wpm-p8h2-x7wh
References
More Horde vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-06837 Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 5.2.22 allows injection of arbitrary PHP code via CSV… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-12524 Horde Groupware Webmail Edition through 5.2.22 allows a reflection injection attack… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
- TI-2025-21655 Cross-site scripting in Horde IMP CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2012-00202 Horde 3.3.12, Horde Groupware 1.2.10, and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.2.10, as… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2017-05066 In Horde_Crypt before 2.7.6, as used in Horde Groupware Webmail Edition through 5.2.17… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2014-01304 The framework/Util/lib/Horde/Variables.php script in the Util library in Horde before… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-65053 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-65053 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8wpm-p8h2-x7wh · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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