Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-22
Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs
- Announced
- April 21, 2009
- Reporter
- Michael
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 3.0.9
Description
Mozilla community member Michael reported that
when a server responds with a Refresh header containing a
javascript: URI, Firefox will redirect to the javascript: URI. If an
attacker could inject a Refresh header into a server
response, or could control the value that a site places in
the Refresh header, they could use this vulnerability to
perform an XSS attack and execute arbitrary JavaScript within the
context of that site.