Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-0496

Title: Mozilla Firefox Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-0496

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Feb 01, 2006
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.61%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-0496: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 and possibly earlier, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and possibly earlier, and Netscape 8.1 and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the -moz-binding (Cascading Style Sheets) CSS property, which does not require that the style sheet have the same origin as the web page, as demonstrated by the compromise of a large number of LiveJournal accounts.

Impacted Vendors

M
mozilla 2

Reference Links

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/708069.html http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113847912709062&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015553 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015563 http://www.davidpashley.com/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/computing/livejournal-mozilla-bug.html http://www.osvdb.org/22924 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16427 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0403 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324253 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24427 http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/708069.html http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113847912709062&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015553 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015563 http://www.davidpashley.com/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/computing/livejournal-mozilla-bug.html http://www.osvdb.org/22924 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16427 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0403 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324253 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24427
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-0496 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27150
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.