Wikipedia Toolbar on Firefox Open to Attack

Author: Donald Sears
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A critical vulnerability in the Wikipedia Toolbar extension for Firefox has been discovered that can be exploited by an attacker to compromise a victim’s system. According to the Secunia report, the cause of the problem is due to the application using invalidated input in a call to eval() which can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.

A critical vulnerability in the Wikipedia Toolbar extension for Firefox has been discovered that can be exploited by an attacker to compromise a victim’s system. According to the Secunia report, the cause of the problem is due to the application using invalidated input in a call to eval() which can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. Read the full article. [The H Security]

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