CVE-2015-7187

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The Add-on SDK in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 misinterprets a "script: false" panel setting, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via inline JavaScript code that is executed within a third-party extension.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 41.0.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-121.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195735
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-121.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1

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