Description
The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
Published: 2012-11-21
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-5715 The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1638-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:21:26.929Z

Reserved: 2012-11-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-5837

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-21T12:55:03.523

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-5837

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-5837 - Bugzilla

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