CVE-2010-2769

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a selection that is added to a document in which the designMode property is enabled.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.11; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+84)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.6; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+45)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.6; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+62)

References

http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047282.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2106
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:173
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-62.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43106
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520189

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