CVE-2002-0270 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (Opera, when configured with the "Determine action by MIME ty)
Opera, when configured with the "Determine action by MIME type" option disabled, interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a
| CVE ID | CVE-2002-0270 |
|---|---|
| Severity | MEDIUM |
| CVSS score | 4.3 |
| CVSS vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| CWE | CWE-79 |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2002-05-29 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | Opera, when configured with the "Determine action by MIME type" option disabled, interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a text/plain type to prevent cross-site scripting attacks. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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