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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22701 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/32118 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017909 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24312 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0745 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25027 ↗
- http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/855/ ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_28_opera.html ↗
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html ↗