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CVE-2008-4725

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Opera.dll in Opera 9.52 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scri

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Opera.dll in Opera 9.52 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string, which is not properly escaped before storage in the History Search database (aka md.dat), a different vector than CVE-2008-4696. NOTE: some of these issues were addressed before 9.60.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.13824
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
  • EPSS percentile: top 6% 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

1
opera browserall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

3
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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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
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

15
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://secunia.com/advisories/32299Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4504
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/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/961/
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