CVE-2009-3266
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."
- EPSS
- 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- opera:opera_browser
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-10/0289.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37182
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/09/exploiting-chrome-and-operas-inbuilt-atomrss-reader-with-script-execution-and-more/
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/10/hijacking-operas-native-page-using-malicious-rss-payloads/
- http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1001/