Arbitrary Script Injection Vulnerability in Google Chrome

Arbitrary Script Injection Vulnerability in Google Chrome

CVE-2016-5191 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation of supplied data, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages, as demonstrated by an interpretation conflict between userinfo and scheme in an http://javascript:payload@example.com URL.

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