Cross-site scripting in Google Chrome - CVE-2013-6656
Published: February 24, 2014 / Updated: February 8, 2023
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via unspecified vectors. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6656
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/02/stable-channel-update_20.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00006.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2883
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=331725
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=164749&view=revision