XSS using addEventListener

XSS using addEventListener

Announced

May 30, 2007

Reporter

moz_bug_r_a4

Impact

High

Products

Firefox, SeaMonkey

Fixed in

• Firefox 1.5.0.12
• Firefox 2.0.0.4
• SeaMonkey 1.0.9
• SeaMonkey 1.1.2

Description

Mozilla contributor moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrated that the addEventListener method 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.

Workaround

Disable JavaScript until a fixed version can be installed.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376987
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377356
• CVE-2007-2870