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Opera, when configured with the "Determine action by MIME type" option disabled, interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a text/plain type to prevent cross-site scripting attacks

Published May 3, 2002

Description

Opera, when configured with the "Determine action by MIME type" option disabled, interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a text/plain type to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (1)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 3, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved May 1, 2002
Link CVE-2002-0270
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2002-0270
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2002-0270