What is CVE-2015-9279?

CVE-2015-9279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mailenable, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-01-16.

How severe is CVE-2015-9279?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Mailenable

CVE-2015-9279

MailEnable before 8.60 allows Stored XSS via malformed use of "<img/src" with no ">" character in the body of an e-mail message.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-01-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (68.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mailenable

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/uk/technical-advisories/2015/techn… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.nccgroup.trust/uk/our-research/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable/ (Third Party Advisory)
web.archive.org/web/20150329173628/http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNo… (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9279?: CVE-2015-9279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mailenable, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-01-16.
How severe is CVE-2015-9279?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.