CVE-2005-0752

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Plugin Finder Service (PFS) in Firefox before 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a javascript: URL in the PLUGINSPAGE attribute of an EMBED tag.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+5)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/14938
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-34.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13228
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100024
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10279
http://secunia.com/advisories/14938
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-34.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13228
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100024
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10279

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