CVE-2006-6985: Maxthon

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-domain vulnerability in Maxthon 1.5.6 build 42 allows remote attackers to access restricted information from other domains via an object tag with a data parameter that references a link on the attacker's originating site that specifies a Location HTTP header that references the target site, which then makes that content available through the outerHTML attribute of the object, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-3280.

Affected products

• Maxthon Maxthon: version 1.5.6_build_42 only

Published 2007-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.