The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to…

Description

The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.

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 (21)

• RHSA-2007:0909 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• MDKSA-2007:157 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 24889 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 23932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2007:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 32975 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• GLSA-200703-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 20070124 Re: Safari Improperly Parses HTML Documents & BlogSpot XSS vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• USN-420-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 27108 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1117 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 24463 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1017591 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 24065 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 24013 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10244 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• MDKSA-2007:031 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0505 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 22428 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 24442 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2007-0537](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2007-0537.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2007-0537)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 12:19 UTC.