Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin…

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving an IFRAME element that triggers a redirect, a second IFRAME element that does not trigger a redirect, and an eval of a WindowProxy object, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

71.7% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (3 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 (12)

• 62658 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• MS15-018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• 1031888 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2015/02/05/another-day-another-zero-day-internet-explorer-s-turn-cve-2015-0072.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/04/internet-explorer-has-a-cross-site-scripting-zero-day-bug/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/2879372/dangerous-ie-vulnerability-opens-door-to-powerful-phishing-attacks.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://innerht.ml/blog/ie-uxss.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20150209 Cookie hijacking: Internet Explorer UXSS (CVE-2015-0072) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130308/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Universal-XSS-Proof-Of-Concept.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20150131 Major Internet Explorer Vulnerability - NOT Patched (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• ms-ie-cve20150072-xss(100606) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 72489 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2015-0072](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2015-0072.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-0072)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 03:55 UTC.