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CVE-2006-2783

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2006-06-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Thunderbird

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References