MailEnable before 8.60 allows Stored XSS via malformed use of "<img/src" with no ">" character in the body of an e-mail message.

published 2019-01-16 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-9121

cvss: 6.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

mailenable mailenable 8.60

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Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

nccgroup.trust https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/uk/technical-advisories/2015/technical-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable.pdf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

nccgroup.trust /globalassets/our-research/uk/technical-advisories/2015/technical-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailena
exploit, third-party-advisory
web.archive.org /web/20150329173628/http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt
release-notes, vendor-advisory
nccgroup.trust /uk/our-research/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable/
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-9279
NVD CVE-2015-9279

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