CVE-2008-6961: Mozilla Seamonkey

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mailnews in Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.18 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.13, when JavaScript is enabled in mail, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the recipient, or comments in forwarded mail, via script that reads the (1) .documentURI or (2) .textContent DOM properties.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 1.1.12; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 2.0.0.17; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2009-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.