CVE-2007-5414

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0, when UTF-7 document content is rendered directly in UTF-7, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a gopher URI that uses single quote characters to delimit a literal string within an XSS sequence, a related issue to CVE-2007-5415.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 1.8

References

http://osvdb.org/43670
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3216
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482006/100/0/threaded
http://osvdb.org/43670
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3216
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482006/100/0/threaded

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