# CVE-2006-3229: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open WebMail (OWM) 2.52, and other versions released before 05/12/2006, allows remote attackers

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2006-06-27 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open WebMail (OWM) 2.52, and other versions released before 05/12/2006, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) To and (2) From fields in openwebmail-main.pl, and possibly (3) other unspecified vectors related to "openwebmailerror calls that need to display HTML."

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## References

- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27309
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20714
- http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/dev/svn/index.pl/openwebmail/diff/trunk/src/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-main.pl?rev1=235%3Brev2=236
- http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/changes.txt
- http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-June/000902.html

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