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Status published
Medium
CVE-2023-5771
HTML injection in AdminUI through email subject
Vulnerability Description
Proofpoint Enterprise Protection contains a stored XSS vulnerability in the AdminUI. An unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted email with HTML in the subject which triggers XSS when viewing quarantined messages. This issue affects Proofpoint Enterprise Protection: from 8.20.0 before patch 4796, from 8.18.6 before patch 4795 and all other prior versions.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Vulnerable Versions:
8.20.0, 8.18.6, 8.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
November 6th, 2023
Last Modified:
September 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N