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Secunia Security Advisory 15756

Secunia Security Advisory 15756
Posted Jul 28, 2005
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and retrieve a user's files.

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Secunia Security Advisory 15756

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TITLE:
Opera Image Dragging Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15756

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15756/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Opera 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/4932/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks and retrieve a user's files.

The vulnerability is caused due to Opera allowing a user to drag e.g.
an image, which is actually a "javascript:" URI, resulting in
cross-site scripting if dropped over another site. This may also be
used to populate a file upload form, resulting in uploading of
arbitrary files to a malicious web site.

Successful exploitation requires that the user is tricked into
dragging and dropping e.g. an image or a link.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 8.01. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 8.02.
http://www.opera.com/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jakob Balle, Secunia Research.

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

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Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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