HTML injection in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-5453
Published: April 19, 2017 / Updated: March 13, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU6343
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5453
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an insufficient sanitization of data sent as URL parameters for a feed's TITLE element during scrolling with editable content. A remote attacker can inject aritrary HTML code and perform XSS attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5453
Update to Firefox 53.