CVE-2006-2783

CVE-2006-2783 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

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