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CVE-2008-4066

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-09-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav�ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Firefox

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References