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CVE-2008-4196

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-09-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Opera before 9.52 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Opera Browser: through 9.51; 5.0, 5.0-beta2, 5.0-beta3, 5.0-beta4, 5.0-beta5, 5.0-beta6 (+78)

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235298
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31549
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32538
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-01.xml
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/19/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/4
• http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/952/
• http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/952/
• http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/952/
• http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/952/
• http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/952/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020719

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