CVE-2007-0478

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

WebCore on Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.10, as used in Safari, does not properly parse HTML comments in TITLE elements, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within an HTML comment.

Affected products

Apple Safari: all versions
Apple Webcore: all versions

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/32712
http://secunia.com/advisories/23893
http://secunia.com/advisories/26235
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018494
http://www.beanfuzz.com/wordpress/?p=99
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457763/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31846
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172

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