Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-19
XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout
- Announced
- July 17, 2007
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 2.0.0.5
- SeaMonkey 1.1.3
Description
Mozilla contributor moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrated that the methods addEventListener and setTimeout could be used to inject script into another site in violation of the browser's same-origin policy. This could be used to access or modify private or valuable information from that other site.