CVE-2013-0271: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.7 might allow remote attackers to create or overwrite files via a crafted (1) mxit or (2) mxit/imagestrips pathname.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.6; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.