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CVE-2025-68461· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.12 and 1.6 before 1.6.12 is prone to a Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the animate tag in an SVG d

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 62/100)

  • CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Feb 20, 2026). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Mar 13, 2026.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 26.8% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 98% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: Roundcube Webmail 1.5.12, 1.6.12.

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Upgrade to Roundcube Webmail 1.5.12, 1.6.12 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.12 and 1.6 before 1.6.12 is prone to a Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the animate tag in an SVG document.

MediumCVSS 6.1 · v3.1KEVWeaponized Fix available
Published
Dec 18, 2025
Updated
Oct 1, 2026
EPSS
26.8% · 98th percentile

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Action score

62

This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS
24 / 40 · 6.1 / 10
CISA KEV
30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS
8 / 30 · 26.8%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
active
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
6.1
CNA · mitre
7.2
1.1 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Feb 20, 2026. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Mar 13, 2026.

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Limit the impact of XSS

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • roundcube webmailbefore 1.5.12
  • roundcube webmail1.6.0 and later · before 1.6.12

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (mitre). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Roundcube Webmail

    • before 1.5.12affected · semver
    • 1.6.0 and later · before 1.6.12affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:11roundcubebefore 1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u61.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u6
Debian:12roundcubebefore 1.6.5+dfsg-1+deb12u61.6.5+dfsg-1+deb12u6
Debian:13roundcubebefore 1.6.12+dfsg-0+deb13u11.6.12+dfsg-0+deb13u1
Debian:14roundcubebefore 1.6.12+dfsg-11.6.12+dfsg-1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0roundcubemailbefore 1.6.13-bp160.1.11.6.13-bp160.1.1

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2025-49113Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.10 and 1.6.x before 1.6.11 allows remote code execution by authenticated users because the _from parameter in aKEV
    95Now
  • CVE-2020-12641rcube_image.php in Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a configuration setKEV
    94Now
  • CVE-2024-42009A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Roundcube through 1.5.7 and 1.6.x through 1.6.7 allows a remote attacker to steal and send emails ofKEV
    92Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-57004Feb 3, 2025 · Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail 1.6.9 allows remote authenticated users to upload a malicious file as an email
    36Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-68460Dec 18, 2025 · Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.12 and 1.6 before 1.6.12 is prone to a information disclosure vulnerability in the HTML style sanitizer.
    30Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-25916Feb 9, 2026 · Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.13 and 1.6 before 1.6.13, when "Block remote images" is used, does not block SVG feImage.
    17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Roundcube Webmail1.5.12Vendor (CNA)
Roundcube Webmail1.6.12Vendor (CNA)
debian:roundcube1.6.5+dfsg-1+deb12u6 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:roundcubemail1.6.13-bp160.1.1 · openSUSE:Leap 16.0Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

Weaponized

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Evidence

  • Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×2

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHubstars:162025-12-19
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHubstars:62025-12-22

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Published
  2. First PoC+1 d
  3. CISA KEV+64 d
  4. TodayOct 25, 2026+312 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2024-42009500 days apartA Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Roundcube through 1.5.7 and 1.6.x through 1.6.7 allows a remote attacker to steal and send emails ofKEV
    92Now
  • CVE-2024-42008500 days apartA Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in rcmail_action_mail_get->run() in Roundcube through 1.5.7 and 1.6.x through 1.6.7 allows a remote att
    47Plan
  • CVE-2026-54433208 days apartIn Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.17 and 1.7.x before 1.7.2, there is Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via a crafted plain-text email message
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-48848158 days apartRoundcube 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
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-74998242 days apartIn Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.18 and 1.7.x before 1.7.3, responses from the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) proxy were not validated, which m
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-35539106 days apartAn issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.14 and 1.6.14.
    24Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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