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Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA22628  
Release Date: 2006-10-30

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

Software:Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

CVE reference:CVE-2004-1155 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, 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:
SA13251

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 7.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.

Solution:
Do not browse untrusted sites while browsing trusted sites.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Originally discovered by:
Secunia Research

Reported in Internet Explorer 7 by:
Per Gravgaard

Other References:
SA13251:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13251/



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

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