CVE-2007-1115 Information

Description

The child frames in Opera 9 before 9.20 inherit the default charset from the parent window when a charset is not specified in an HTTP Content-Type header or META tag which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/32118 http://secunia.com/advisories/24312 http://secunia.com/advisories/25027 http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_28_opera.html http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/855/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22701 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017909 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0745