CVE-2023-4579

Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 11, 2023
Updated: Dec 18, 2025
Reserved: Aug 29, 2023

Description

Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL. This could have led to a site spoofing another if it had been maliciously set as the default search engine. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 117Affected

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842766
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/

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