XSS in Fortinet Fortimail

CVE-2014-8617

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web Action Quarantine Release feature in the WebGUI in Fortinet FortiMail before 4.3.9, 5.0.x before 5.0.8, 5.1.x before 5.1.5, and 5.2.x before 5.2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the release parameter to module/releasecontrol.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2015-03-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (67.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 67.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Fortinet Fortimail — versions 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-15-005/ (Vendor Advisory)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/5 (mailing-list, Exploit)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1031859 (vdb-entry)