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CVE-2008-5681

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Opera before 9.63 does not block unspecified "scripted URLs" during the feed preview, which allows remote attackers to read existing subscriptions and force subscriptions to arbitrary feed URLs.

Affected products

• Opera Browser: through 9.62; 1.00, 2.00, 2.10, 2.10-beta1, 2.10-beta2, 2.10-beta3 (+107)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/34294
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml
• http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963/
• http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/923/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021461
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34294
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml
• http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963/
• http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/923/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021461

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