CVE-2015-8510 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the internationalization feature in the default homescreen app in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted web site that is mishandled during "Add to home screen" bookmarking

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the internationalization feature in the default homescreen app in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted web site that is mishandled during "Add to home screen" bookmarking

Published Jan 9, 2016

6.1

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.65%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the internationalization feature in the default homescreen app in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted web site that is mishandled during "Add to home screen" bookmarking.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.65% 0.00650

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00650

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.65% (0.00650)	49.27th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.66% (0.00663)	46.65th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.12% (0.00123)	29.03th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.13% (0.00125)	48.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 14, 2024	0.13% (0.00125)	47.37th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.13% (0.00125)	45.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (2)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-153.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1190038
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-153.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1190038		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mozilla

Published Jan 9, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Dec 8, 2015

Link CVE-2015-8510

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-8510

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-8510