CVE-2012-2586: Mailtraq

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mailtraq 2.17.3.3150 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message subject with (1) a JavaScript alert function used in conjunction with the fromCharCode method or (2) a SCRIPT element; an e-mail message body with (3) a crafted SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, (4) a data: URL in the CONTENT attribute of an HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" META element, or (5) a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in the STYLE attribute of an IMG element; or an e-mail message Date header with (6) a JavaScript alert function used in conjunction with the fromCharCode method, (7) a SCRIPT element, (8) a CSS expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element, (9) a crafted SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, or (10) a data: URL in the CONTENT attribute of an HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" META element.

Affected products

• Mailtraq Mailtraq: version 2.17.3.3150 only

Published 2012-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.