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>> Opera Browser UTF-7 Charset Inheritance Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : Opera Browser UTF-7 Charset Inheritance Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0745
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1115
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-02-26


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A vulnerability has been identified in Opera, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is due to an error when processing web pages that accept user content and do not specify the character set or encoding used, which could be exploited to bypass security restrictions and conduct cross site scripting attacks.

Affected Products

Opera version 9.10 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to Opera version 9.20 :
http://www.opera.com/download/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0745
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/855/
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser

ChangeLog

2007-02-26 : Initial release
2007-04-11 : Updated Solution

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