CVE-2009-1714

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Web Inspector in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and read local files, via vectors related to the improper escaping of HTML attributes.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 4.0_beta; through 3.2.3; 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0.3, 1.1, 1.2 (+18)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/55023
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://secunia.com/advisories/37746
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022344
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1950
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35348
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522

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