CVE-2009-3266

Opera < 10.01 - Cross-Site Scripting via RSS/Atom Feed Rendering

Title source: llm

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)

Core 15

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/939/

Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3073

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506517/100/0/threaded

Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-10/0289.html

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb

http://www.osvdb.org/59358

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1001/

Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/37182

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36850

Exploit x_refsource_misc

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36418

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54021

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6314

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1001/

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1001/

Scores

EPSS 0.0080

EPSS Percentile 74.2%

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (30)

opera/opera_browser 5.0 (8 CPE variants)

opera/opera_browser 5.02

opera/opera_browser 5.10

opera/opera_browser 5.11

opera/opera_browser 5.12

opera/opera_browser 6.0 (6 CPE variants)

opera/opera_browser 6.1 (2 CPE variants)

opera/opera_browser 6.01

opera/opera_browser 6.02

opera/opera_browser 6.03

... and 20 more

Published Sep 18, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026