CVE-2010-2301 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2301?

CVE-2010-2301 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 15 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 editing/markup.cpp in WebCore in WebKit in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to the node.innerHTML property of a TEXTAREA element. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2010-1762.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2301?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2301?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-2301 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-2010-2301 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2301 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jggr-9j53-5ggr.