Opera Browser Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Monday, August 2nd, 2004
by Marc Erickson

“bitlance winter has discovered a vulnerability in the Opera browser, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks against a user….This has been confirmed using Opera version 7.53….NOTE: A PoC (Proof of Concept) exploit is available. Solution: Do not follow links from untrusted websites.”

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