CVE-2008-4696

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Opera.dll in Opera before 9.61 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary w

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Opera.dll in Opera before 9.61 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the anchor identifier (aka the "optional fragment"), which is not properly escaped before storage in the History Search database (aka md.dat).

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.62121

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EPSS ≥ 0.50 - high probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
EPSS percentile: top 2% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
Public exploit or PoC is available

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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Affected Products & Versions

operaall versions

opera<= 9.6

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Public Exploits & PoCs

remoteOpera historysearch - Cross-Site Scripting (Metasploit)verified
remoteOpera 9.50/9.61 historysearch - Command Execution (Metasploit)verified
remoteOpera 9.60 - Persistent Cross-Site Scriptingverified
pocwww.securityfocus.com · 31869www.securityfocus.com
pocwww.exploit-db.com · 6801www.exploit-db.com

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Scoring & Timeline

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published to NVD23 Oct 2008 · 10:00 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00009.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/32299Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/32394

http://secunia.com/advisories/32538

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-01.xml

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4504

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/21/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/22/5

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/961/Patch

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/961/Patch

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/961/Patch

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/961/

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/961/

http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/903/Vendor Advisory

http://www.security-assessment.com/files/advisories/2008-10-22_Opera_Stored_Cross_Site_Scripting.pdf

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497646/100/0/threaded

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2873

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46003

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