CVE-2022-22759 (GCVE-0-2022-22759)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-16 14:36
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CWE
- Sandboxed iframes could have executed script if the parent appended elements
Summary
If a document created a sandboxed iframe without <code>allow-scripts</code>, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e.g. had a JavaScript event handler - the event handler would have run despite the iframe's sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.
References
Impacted products
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| ► | Mozilla | Firefox |
Version: unspecified < 97 |
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