Opera historysearch XSS
Description
Certain constructs are not escaped correctly by Opera's History Search results. These can be used to inject scripts into the page, which can then be used to modify configuration settings and execute arbitrary commands. Affects Opera versions between 9.50 and 9.61.
Author(s)
- Roberto Suggi
- Aviv Raff <avivra@gmail.com>
- egypt <egypt@metasploit.com>
Platform
Unix
Development
Module Options
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':
msf > use exploit/multi/browser/opera_historysearch
msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(opera_historysearch) > exploit
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