Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2015-7188

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy for an IP address origin, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by appending whitespace characters to an IP address string.

EPSS: 0.031 (86.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7188?
CVE-2015-7188 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-254. Published 2015-11-05.
Is CVE-2015-7188 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.