Vulnerability CVE-2023-4579


Published: 2023-09-11

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.

 References:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842766

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