CVE-2007-5540

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 9.24 allows remote attackers to overwrite functions on pages from other domains and bypass the same-origin policy via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 9.23; 1.00, 2.00, 2.10, 2.10-beta1, 2.10-beta2, 2.10-beta3 (+94)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196164
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
http://osvdb.org/38127
http://secunia.com/advisories/27277
http://secunia.com/advisories/27399
http://secunia.com/advisories/27431
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-31.xml
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/867/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26102
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3529
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196164
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html

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