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CVE-2013-1709

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly handle the interaction between FRAME elements and history, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving spoofing a relative location in a previously visited document.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 22.0; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+8)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.20; 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+140)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 17.0.7; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+1)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+2)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-68.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61867
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=848253
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18531
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-68.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61867
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=848253
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18531

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