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Opera Window Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13253
Release Date: 2004-12-08
Last Update: 2005-06-16
Popularity: 56,446 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Opera 7.x
Opera 8.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1157


Description:
Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of web sites.

The problem is that a web site can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious web site to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted web site.

This is related to:
SA11978

Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_injection_vulnerability_test/

The vulnerability has been confirmed in Opera versions 7.54 and 8.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 8.01.
http://www.opera.com/download/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Secunia Research

Changelog:
2004-12-10: Added CVE reference.
2004-12-13: Added information about Security update 7.54u1.
2005-02-22: Added information about Security update 7.54u2.
2005-03-07: Updated advisory.
2005-06-16: Added Opera 8 as affected. Updated description and solution.

Original Advisory:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-13/advisory/

Opera Software:
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=782

Other References:
SA11978:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11978/


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