CVE-2009-3266

Opera Browser - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

Opera before 10.01 does not properly restrict HTML in a (1) RSS or (2) Atom feed, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, and conduct cross-zone scripting attacks involving the Feed Subscription Page to read feeds or create feed subscriptions, via a crafted feed, related to the rendering of the application/rss+xml content type as "scripted content."

References (15)

[Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-10/0289.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/37182

[Exploit] http://securethoughts.com/2009/09/exploiting-chrome-and-operas-inbuilt-atomrss-reader-with-script-execution-and-more/

[Various Sources] http://securethoughts.com/2009/10/hijacking-operas-native-page-using-malicious-rss-payloads/

[Patch] http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1001/

[Patch] http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1001/

[Patch] http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1001/

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/939/

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.osvdb.org/59358

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3073

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54021

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6314

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506517/100/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36418

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36850

Scores

EPSS 0.0080

EPSS Percentile 73.7%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (50)

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

opera/opera_browser

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Sep 18, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026