Bypassing Same Origin Policy through designMode Inheritance in Blink

CVE-2015-1254 · MEDIUM Severity

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

core/dom/Document.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65, enables the inheritance of the designMode attribute, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy by leveraging the availability of editing.

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