Universal XSS and File Read Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

Universal XSS and File Read Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2016-5265 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files, by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

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