Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2016-2228

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2228 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Horde Groupware and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition versions prior to 5.2.12. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML via the 'searchfield' parameter, specifically demonstrated through requests to xplorer/gollem/manager.php. With a CVSS v3 score of 6.1 (Medium), this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and could lead to low impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 5.2.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:horde:groupware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 5.2.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:horde:horde_groupware:*:*:*:*:webmail_edition:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0187 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.horde.org / ticket/14213
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177484.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177584.html
lists.horde.org / archives/announce/2016/001148.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.horde.org / archives/announce/2016/001149.html
Vendor Advisory
github.com / horde/horde/blob/e838d4c800b0d1ecaf8b4cc613fd3af4f994c79c/bundles/webmail/docs/CHANGES
github.com / horde/horde/commit/ab07a1b447de34e13983b4d7ceb18b58c3a358d8
Exploit
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3497
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/5