CVE-2016-9903 Cross-site scripting in Firefox

What is CVE-2016-9903?

CVE-2016-9903 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 11 Jun 2018. 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

Mozilla's add-ons SDK had a world-accessible resource with an HTML injection vulnerability. If an additional vulnerability allowed this resource to be loaded as a document it could allow injecting content and script into an add-on's context. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9903?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9903?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2016-9903 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9903 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9fhg-wr6f-g4x9, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9903.