CVE-2011-4170: Gnome Empathy

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme_adium_append_message function in empathy-theme-adium.c in the Adium theme in libempathy-gtk in Empathy 3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted alias (aka nickname) in a /me event, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3635.

Affected products

• Gnome Empathy: up to and including 3.2.1; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2011-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.