CVE-2007-1114: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The child frames in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 inherit the default charset from the parent window when a charset is not specified in an HTTP Content-Type header or META tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 7.0 only

Published 2007-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.