CVE-2016-9901

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the "about:pocket-saved" (unprivileged) page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.6 and Firefox < 50.1.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jun 11, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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