CVE-2013-3166 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2013-3166?

CVE-2013-3166 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 10 Jul 2013. 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 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving incorrect auto-selection of the Shift JIS encoding, leading to cross-domain scrolling events, aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0015.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-3166?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.

How do I fix CVE-2013-3166?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-3166 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-2013-3166 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2013-3166 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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-vcrm-xj24-h4qp.