CVE-2016-9901 (GCVE-0-2016-9901)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:07
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Data from Pocket server improperly sanitized before execution
Summary
HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the "about:pocket-saved" (unprivileged) page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.6 and Firefox < 50.1.
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Impacted products
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| ► | Mozilla | Firefox ESR |
Version: unspecified < 45.6 |
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