CVE-2006-2783

Medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedJun 2, 2006
First seenJun 2, 2006

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv ≤ 1.5.0.3—
mozilla thunderbirdv ≤ 1.5.0.3—

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