Cross-origin script execution via persistent link context menu
Published Aug 6, 2024 · Updated Mar 24, 2025
Universal cross-site scripting in Mozilla Firefox for iOS before 129 allows remote attackers to execute script in another origin via a crafted link. A link context menu remains bound to the initiating page after navigation to a target origin, so its download action executes a JavaScript URI against the target. Exploitation requires the user to long-press the link during a timing-sensitive navigation and select the menu action, allowing script to read or alter content in the target origin.
Summary
What happened
Universal cross-site scripting in Mozilla Firefox for iOS before 129 allows remote attackers to execute script in another origin via a crafted link. A link context menu remains bound to the initiating page after navigation to a target origin, so its download action executes a JavaScript URI against the target. Exploitation requires the user to long-press the link during a timing-sensitive navigation and select the menu action, allowing script to read or alter content in the target origin.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-43113
- Published
- Aug 6, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 24, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox for iOS
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 6, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 24, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <129
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Public exploit references
- Mozilla Bugzilla context-menu UXSS demonstrationproof of concept · demonstrated
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