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CVE-2005-1156

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script and code via a new search plugin using sidebar.addSearchEngine, aka "Firesearching 1."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+5)
• Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+17)
• Netscape Navigator: 7.2

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/14938
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14992
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14996
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013745
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml
• http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13211

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