CVE-2009-4101

high

Description

infoRSS 1.1.4.2 and earlier extension for Firefox performs certain operations with chrome privileges, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and perform cross-domain scripting attacks via the description tag of an RSS feed.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54370

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/361#version-1.2.0

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3323

http://secunia.com/advisories/37467

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-11-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H