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CVE-2008-0454 (GCVE-0-2008-0454)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-25 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:46
VLAI
Summary
Cross-zone scripting vulnerability in the Internet Explorer web control in Skype 3.6.0.244, and earlier 3.5.x and 3.6.x versions, on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the Local Machine Zone via the Title field of a (1) Dailymotion and possibly (2) Metacafe movie in the Skype video gallery, accessible through a search within the "Add video to chat" dialog, aka "videomood XSS."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-01-17 00:00
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