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Thanks Jimmy Daniels for emailing us. A universal cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Microsoft’s WebBrowser control that an attacker can exploit that can result in elevated privileges and session hijacking of the MSN Messenger client. This vulnerability stems from an error in the validation code in the dialogArguments property. The following software are affected:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Outlook Express
• All application that host the WebBrowser control (IE 6.0 or newer).

There is no patch available for this issue yet, however, user could disable scripting as a pre-caution until the patch is available.

News source: Security Administrator - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability in Microsoft WebBrowser Control
View: More information at Thor Larholm security advisory

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