CVE-2007-0768

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Contact Details functionality in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URI in the SRC attribute of an IMG element to the (1) First Name, (2) Last Name, and (3) Nickname fields. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

yahoo Messenger: through 8.1.0.209

References

http://osvdb.org/31674
http://secunia.com/advisories/23928
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458225/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458305/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458494/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22269
http://osvdb.org/31674
http://secunia.com/advisories/23928
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458225/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458305/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458494/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22269

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