CVE-2007-2870

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, and SeaMonkey 1.0.9 and 1.1.2, allows remote attackers to bypass the same-origin policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) and other attacks by using the addEventListener method to add an event listener for a site, which is executed in the context of that site.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5 (+10)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0.9, 1.1.2

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://osvdb.org/35136
http://secunia.com/advisories/25469
http://secunia.com/advisories/25476
http://secunia.com/advisories/25488
http://secunia.com/advisories/25490
http://secunia.com/advisories/25491
http://secunia.com/advisories/25533
http://secunia.com/advisories/25534
http://secunia.com/advisories/25559
http://secunia.com/advisories/25635
http://secunia.com/advisories/25647

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