Description
The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.
Published: 2007-01-29
Score: 2.6 Low
EPSS: 4.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-0535 The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-420-1 KDE library vulnerability
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Kde Konqueror
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:19:30.546Z

Reserved: 2007-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-0537

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-01-29T16:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-0537

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2007-01-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-0537 - Bugzilla

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