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.
2007-02-26T23:28:00.000
2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Deferred
CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
8.6
2.9
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.0 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.0 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.0 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.01 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.02 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.10 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.12 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.20 | Yes |
Application | opera | opera_browser | 9.20 | Yes |