Afterlogic Aurora Webmail up to 9.8.3 HTML E-mail Message HTML injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Afterlogic Aurora Webmail up to 9.8.3. It has been declared as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component HTML E-mail Message Handler. Such manipulation leads to HTML injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-12460. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Afterlogic Aurora Webmail up to 9.8.3. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component HTML E-mail Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a html injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

An XSS issue was discovered in Afterlogic Aurora webmail version 9.8.3 and below. An attacker can send a specially crafted HTML e-mail message with JavaScript in an img HTML tag. This could allow a remote attacker to load arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of a webmail user's browser window, and access user data.

The weakness was disclosed by Matthieu Faou. The advisory is shared for download at auroramail.wordpress.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-12460 since 10/29/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/31/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Class: HTML injection
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

10/29/2025 CVE reserved
10/31/2025 +2 days Advisory disclosed
10/31/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/31/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: auroramail.wordpress.com
Researcher: Matthieu Faou
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-12460 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-12460
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-330812

Entryinfo

Created: 10/31/2025 15:14
Changes: 10/31/2025 15:14 (66)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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