Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1531

Title: Mozilla Firefox Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1531.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 12, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.29%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1531: Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 does not properly implement certain security checks for script injection, which allows remote attackers to execute script via "Wrapped" javascript: URLs, as demonstrated using (1) a javascript: URL in a view-source: URL, (2) a javascript: URL in a jar: URL, or (3) "a nested variant."

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 2

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://securitytracker.com/id?1013962 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013963 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-43.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-434.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-435.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13641 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0530 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100015 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10351 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://securitytracker.com/id?1013962 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013963 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-43.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-434.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-435.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13641 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0530 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100015 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10351

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1531 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 12, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.