Secunia Logo  


Secunia PSI WorldMap
 
Mozilla Firefox Wizz RSS News Reader Extension Cross-Context Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA24913
Release Date: 2007-04-17
Last Update: 2007-04-25
Popularity: 12,122 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wizz RSS News Reader (extension for Firefox) 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities


Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Wizz RSS News Reader extension for Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Certain input is not properly sanitised before being used and can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary script code within the "chrome:" context.

Successful exploitation requires that a user is tricked into loading a specially crafted RSS feed.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.1.9.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

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

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

6th Nov, 2009
New advisories: 17
New vulnerabilities: 65
Updated advisories: 21

Less // 309 views
Debian update for linux-2.6.24
Less // 294 views
Debian update for linux-2.6
Moderately // 276 views
Gentoo update for horde
Less // 287 views
Fedora update for kernel
Less // 282 views
Fedora update for kernel
Moderately // 286 views
Ubuntu update for libgd2
Moderately // 299 views
Ubuntu update for libgd2
Highly // 298 views
Fedora update for alienarena-data

Solutions | More...  


Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities // 71 views
2. Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities // 61 views
3. Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability // 55 views
4. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities // 49 views
5. Google Chrome Two Vulnerabilities // 26 views
6. Microsoft XML Core Services Multiple Vulnerabilities // 19 views
7. Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities // 16 views
8. FlashChat "info.php" Script Insertion Vulnerabilities // 12 views
9. Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities // 10 views
10. Red Hat update for java-1.6.0-sun // 9 views