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CVE-2007-4478

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-08-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the local zone via a URI, when the document at the associated URL is saved to a local file, which then contains the URI string along with the document's original content.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0

References

• http://osvdb.org/45826
• http://securityvulns.com/news/Microsoft/IE/saved-css.html
• http://securityvulns.ru/Rdocument865.html
• http://websecurity.com.ua/1241/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477253/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498684/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498697/100/0/threaded
• http://osvdb.org/45826
• http://securityvulns.com/news/Microsoft/IE/saved-css.html
• http://securityvulns.ru/Rdocument865.html
• http://websecurity.com.ua/1241/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477253/100/0/threaded

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