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CVE-2011-0242

• 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: 2011-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a URL that contains a username.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: through 5.0.5; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2 (+59)
• Apple Webkit: all versions

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jul/msg00002.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4808
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4999
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jul/msg00002.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4808
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4999

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