CVE-2009-3263

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Chrome 2.x and 3.x before 3.0.195.21 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) RSS or (2) Atom feed, related to the rendering of the application/rss+xml content type as XML "active content."

Affected products

Google Chrome: 2.0.156.1, 2.0.157.0, 2.0.157.2, 2.0.158.0, 2.0.159.0, 2.0.169.0 (+15)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21238
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36770
http://securethoughts.com/2009/09/exploiting-chrome-and-operas-inbuilt-atomrss-reader-with-script-execution-and-more/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506517/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36416
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21238
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36770
http://securethoughts.com/2009/09/exploiting-chrome-and-operas-inbuilt-atomrss-reader-with-script-execution-and-more/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506517/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36416

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