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CVE-2013-3166

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving incorrect auto-selection of the Shift JIS encoding, leading to cross-domain scrolling events, aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0015.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-190A
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-055
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17306
• http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-190A
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-055
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17306

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