XSS in Opera Browser
CVE-2009-3013
Opera 9.52 and earlier, and 10.00 Beta 3 Build 1699, does not properly block data: URIs in Location headers in HTTP responses, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to (1) injecting a Location header that contains JavaScript sequences in a data:text/html URI or (2) entering a data:text/html URI with JavaScript sequences when specifying the content of a Location header. NOTE: the JavaScript executes outside of the context of the HTTP site.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.017 (74.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Opera Opera_browser — versions 7.0, 7.23, 7.53
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)