CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1115
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• opera opera browser 9.0
• opera opera browser 9.01
• opera opera browser 9.02
• opera opera browser 9.10
• opera opera browser 9.12
• opera opera browser 9.20
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/32118 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24312 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25027 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_28_opera.html www.novell.com
- http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/855/ www.opera.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22701 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017909 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0745 Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/32118 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24312 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25027 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_28_opera.html www.novell.com
- http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/855/ www.opera.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22701 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017909 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0745 Vendor Advisory