CVE-2007-0478 (GCVE-0-2007-0478)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-25 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:19
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
WebCore on Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.10, as used in Safari, does not properly parse HTML comments in TITLE elements, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within an HTML comment.
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