Squirrelmail is a widely deployed webmail application notable for its prominent role in email access infrastructure, despite a narrow product portfolio. The vendor's vulnerability footprint concentrates across its core webmail interface and ancillary plugins such as GPG integration, vacation auto-reply, and password-change handlers, reflecting the broad input surface and state-management demands of web-based email clients. Vulnerabilities affecting this vendor recur through weakness classes centered on web-layer input handling—including cross-site scripting, code injection, and cross-site request forgery—alongside generic or placeholder classifications that suggest a history of varied flaw types. Public exploit tooling has frequently been associated with this vendor's disclosures, consistent with the appeal of email infrastructure as a target for credential theft and account compromise. Current severity, exploitation activity, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Squirrelmail over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (77 CVEs).
77 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2006-2842HIGH PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in functions/plugin.php in SquirrelMail 1.4.6 and earlier, if register_globals is enabled and magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote at | Jun 6, 2006 | 7.5 | 61 | NO | YES |
CVE-2003-0990HIGH The parseAddress code in (1) SquirrelMail 1.4.0 and (2) GPG Plugin 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the "To:" field. | Jan 20, 2004 | 7.5 | 59 | NO | YES |
CVE-2002-1131HIGH Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute script as other web users via (1) addressbook.php, (2) options.php, (3) se | Oct 4, 2002 | 7.5 | 57 | NO | YES |
CVE-2017-7692HIGH SquirrelMail 1.4.22 (and other versions before 20170427_0200-SVN) allows post-authentication remote code execution via a sendmail.cf file that is mishandled in a popen call. It's p | Apr 20, 2017 | 8.8 | 49 | NO | YES |
CVE-2004-0519MEDIUM Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users and possibly steal authentication inform | Aug 18, 2004 | 6.8 | 46 | NO | YES |
CVE-2005-1924HIGH The G/PGP (GPG) Plugin 2.1 and earlier for Squirrelmail allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the fpr parameter to the dele | Dec 31, 2005 | 9.3 | 42 | NO | YES |
CVE-2002-0516HIGH SquirrelMail 1.2.5 and earlier allows authenticated SquirrelMail users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the THEME variable in a cookie. | Aug 12, 2002 | 10.0 | 40 | NO | YES |
CVE-2004-0639MEDIUM Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Squirrelmail 1.2.10 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or script via (1) the $mailer variable in rea | Aug 6, 2004 | 6.8 | 34 | NO | YES |
CVE-2020-14932CRITICAL compose.php in SquirrelMail 1.4.22 calls unserialize for the $mailtodata value, which originates from an HTTP GET request. This is related to mailto.php. | Jun 20, 2020 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-8741HIGH A directory traversal flaw in SquirrelMail 1.4.22 allows an authenticated attacker to exfiltrate (or potentially delete) files from the hosting server, related to ../ in the att_lo | Mar 17, 2018 | 8.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (77 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Squirrelmail.
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