CVE-2006-0496

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 and possibly earlier, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and possibly earlier, and Netscape 8.1 and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the -moz-binding (Cascading Style Sheets) CSS property, which does not require that the style sheet have the same origin as the web page, as demonstrated by the compromise of a large number of LiveJournal accounts.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+2)
Mozilla: 1.7, 1.7-alpha, 1.7-beta, 1.7-rc1, 1.7-rc2, 1.7-rc3 (+10)

References

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/708069.html
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113847912709062&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015553
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015563
http://www.davidpashley.com/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/computing/livejournal-mozilla-bug.html
http://www.osvdb.org/22924
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16427
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0403
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324253
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24427
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/708069.html
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113847912709062&w=2

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