CVE-2016-7966

Through a malicious URL that contained a quote character it was possible to inject HTML code in KMail's plaintext viewer. Due to the parser used on the URL it was not possible to include the equal sign (=) or a space into the injected HTML, which greatly reduces the available HTML functionality. Although it is possible to include an HTML comment indicator to hide content.

Score
CVSS 3.0 7.3 High
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2016-12-23
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Affected products

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