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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Squirrelmail
XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element. (2019-07-01, CVE-2019-12970)
The mail message display page in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 has XSS via a "