Mozilla (Multiple Products) - Server Refresh Header Cross-Site Scripting

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2009-1312  
Publish Date: 22 Apr 2009
Author: Olli Pettay
                							

                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34656/info

The Mozilla Foundation has released multiple security advisories specifying various vulnerabilities in Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey.

Attackers can exploit these issues to bypass same-origin restrictions, obtain potentially sensitive information, and execute arbitrary script code with elevated privileges; other attacks are also possible. 

With request to script at web site:

http://www.example.com/script.php?param=javascript:alert(document.cookie)

Which returns in answer the refresh header:

refresh: 0; URL=javascript:alert(document.cookie)