From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jun 16 2005 - 03:52:56 CDT

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TITLE:
Opera Redirection Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15423

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15423/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Opera 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/4932/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks against users.

The vulnerability is caused due to input not being sanitised, when
Opera generates a temporary page for displaying a redirection when
"Automatic redirection" is disabled (not default setting).

For more information:
SA8155

NOTE: A variant of this issue was first discovered in Opera versions
6.x and 7.x, but was reintroduced with the release of Opera 8.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 8.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 8.01.
http://www.opera.com/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jakob Balle, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2003-1/

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