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CVE-2007-2383

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-04-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Prototype (prototypejs) framework before 1.5.1 RC3 exchanges data using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) without an associated protection scheme, which allows remote attackers to obtain the data via a web page that retrieves the data through a URL in the SRC attribute of a SCRIPT element and captures the data using other JavaScript code, aka "JavaScript Hijacking."

Affected products

• Prototypejs Prototype Framework: 1.5.1_rc3

References

• http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/7910
• http://prototypejs.org/2007/4/24/release-candidate-3
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37677
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1952
• http://www.fortifysoftware.com/servlet/downloads/public/JavaScript_Hijacking.pdf
• http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/7910
• http://prototypejs.org/2007/4/24/release-candidate-3
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37677
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1952
• http://www.fortifysoftware.com/servlet/downloads/public/JavaScript_Hijacking.pdf

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