XSS in Opera Browser
CVE-2007-1115
The child frames in Opera 9 before 9.20 inherit the default charset from the parent window when a charset is not specified in an HTTP Content-Type header or META tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
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: 0.024 (83.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.024 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Opera Browser — versions 9.0, 9.01, 9.02
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22701 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/32118 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/24312 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0745 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25027 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.opera.com/support/search/view/855/
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_28_opera.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)