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Opera historysearch XSS

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Disclosed
Oct 23, 2008
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Certain constructs are not escaped correctly by Opera's History
Search results. These can be used to inject scripts into the
page, which can then be used to modify configuration settings
and execute arbitrary commands. Affects Opera versions between
9.50 and 9.61.

Authors

Roberto Suggi
Aviv Raff [email protected]
egypt [email protected]

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/browser/opera_historysearch
    msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > exploit
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