Question When will Plesk update Roundcube to 1.6.16 / 1.7.1? (Multiple CVEs)

dm-othmer

New Pleskian
Server operating system version
Ubuntu 24.04
Plesk version and microupdate number
18.0.78 #2
Hi Plesk Team and Community,

On May 24, 2026, the Roundcube project released critical security updates — versions 1.6.16 and 1.7.1 — addressing 8 security vulnerabilities, several of which are pre-authentication or require no user interaction:
  • CVE-2026-48842
  • CVE-2026-48843
  • CVE-2026-48845
  • CVE-2026-48846
  • CVE-2026-48847
  • CVE-2026-48848
  • CVE-2026-48844
  • CVE-2026-48849

Changelog Snippet:
  • Security: Fix stored XSS/HTML/CSS injection in subject field of the draft restore dialog
  • Security: Fix CSS injection bypass in HTML sanitizer via SVG <animate attributeName="style">
  • Security: Fix pre-auth SQL injection in virtuser_query plugin via preg_replace backslash escape bypass
  • Security: Fix SSRF bypass via specific local address URLs
  • Security: Fix bypass of remote image blocking via CSS var()
  • Security: Fix local/private URL fetch bypass when remote resources were not allowed
  • Security: Fix pre-auth arbitrary file delete via redis/memcache session poisoning bypass
  • Security: Fix code injection vulnerability - remove support for code evaluation in LDAP autovalues option

The Roundcube team strongly recommends updating all production installations immediately.
Release announcement: Security updates 1.6.16 and 1.7.1 released

My question to the Plesk team:
When can we expect Plesk to ship the updated Roundcube packages (1.6.16 or 1.7.1) through the standard Plesk update mechanism?

Given that at least two of these vulnerabilities are pre-authentication (SQL injection + arbitrary file deletion), this is a high-severity issue for any publicly accessible Plesk server with Roundcube enabled. A timeline or interim mitigation guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
 
Hello!

> When can we expect Plesk to ship the updated Roundcube packages (1.6.16 or 1.7.1) through the standard Plesk update mechanism?

Likely in the beginning of the next week.

> Given that at least two of these vulnerabilities are pre-authentication (SQL injection + arbitrary file deletion), this is a high-severity issue for any publicly accessible Plesk server with Roundcube enabled.

Plesk don't enable virtuser_query plugin in Roundcube as well as not use redis/memache for session storage in Roundcube.
 
Just to confirm, the Roundcube update to version 1.6.16 is released for Plesk Obsidian 18.0.77 in Update 5 and 18.0.78 in Update 3:

Updated Roundcube 1.4.15 to backport fixes from 1.6.16
Updated Roundcube to version 1.6.16
 
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