Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-0768

Title: Yahoo Messenger Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-0768

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Feb 06, 2007
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.77%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-0768: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Contact Details functionality in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URI in the SRC attribute of an IMG element to the (1) First Name, (2) Last Name, and (3) Nickname fields. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

Y
yahoo 1
R
relatedcode 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/31674 http://secunia.com/advisories/23928 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458225/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458305/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458494/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22269 http://osvdb.org/31674 http://secunia.com/advisories/23928 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458225/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458305/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458494/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22269
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-2007-0768 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29531
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.