CVE-2014-1561

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 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: 2014-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 does not properly restrict use of drag-and-drop events to spoof customization events, which allows remote attackers to alter the placement of UI icons via crafted JavaScript code that is encountered during (1) page, (2) panel, or (3) toolbar customization.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 30.0
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/59760
http://secunia.com/advisories/60628
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-60.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000514
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910375
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://secunia.com/advisories/59760
http://secunia.com/advisories/60628
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-60.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

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