CVE-2010-1257 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1257?

CVE-2010-1257 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 8 Jun 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the toStaticHTML API, as used in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP3, 2007 SP1, and 2007 SP2; Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and SP2; SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 and SP2; and Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to sanitization.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1257?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office Infopath, Microsoft Sharepoint Server, Microsoft Sharepoint Services.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1257?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-1257 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2010-1257 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-1257 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer

• CVE-2014-1776 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27085 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2017-0222 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2017-0210 Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2017-0149 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f2pm-wfcp-596f.