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Opera < 15.0 Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8009

Synopsis

The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable by multiple vulnerabilities

Description

The remote host is running the Opera web browser.

Versions of Opera earlier than 15.0 were discovered to have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that would allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML by leveraging UTF-8 encoding.

Solution

Upgrade to Opera 15.0 or later.

See Also

http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2013/JVNDB-2013-000086.html

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unified/1500

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 8009

Family: Web Clients

Published: 9/18/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 70217

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:opera:opera_browser

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4705

BID: 62425