Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0, and possibly the plugin distributed with…

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0, and possibly the plugin distributed with Adobe Reader 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2, for Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, Google Chrome, Opera 8.5.4 build 770, and Opera 9.10.8679 on Windows allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript and conduct other attacks via a .pdf URL with a javascript: or res: URI with (1) FDF, (2) XML, and (3) XFDF AJAX parameters, or (4) an arbitrarily named name=URI anchor identifier, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

47.3% · top 1.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (44)

• RHSA-2007:0021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 23691 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• TA09-286B (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• RHSA-2007:0017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 21858 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/01/stable-beta-update-yahoo-mail-and.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1158-Subverting_Ajax.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20070103 Universal XSS with PDF files: highly dangerous (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 1023007 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 23882 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20070103 Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin - Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0032 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 24457 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• HPSBUX02153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
• adobe-acrobat-pdf-xss(31271) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20070103 Re: [WEB SECURITY] Universal XSS with PDF files: highly dangerous (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 2090 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2007:011 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 102847 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• 33754 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0957 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20070103 RE: [WEB SECURITY] Universal XSS with PDF files: highly dangerous (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 23812 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20070104 Universal PDF XSS After Party (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 1017469 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa07-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa07-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 23483 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 23877 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/universal-pdf-xss-after-party (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9693 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6487 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• ADV-2009-2898 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-200701-16 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 24533 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.disenchant.ch/blog/hacking-with-browser-plugins/34 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• SSA:2007-066-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
• VU#815960 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• 20070103 Re: Universal XSS with PDF files: highly dangerous (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 12:03 UTC.