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CVE-2002-0270

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2002-05-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Opera, when configured with the "Determine action by MIME type" option disabled, interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a text/plain type to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.

Affected Platforms

Opera Software Opera Web Browser

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References