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Microsoft Internet Explorer Window Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13251
Release Date: 2004-12-08
Last Update: 2004-12-10
Popularity: 121,200 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.

The problem is that a website can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website.

This is related to:
SA11966

Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_injection_vulnerability_test/

The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP1/SP2.

Change Page:
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