CVE-2007-3576: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 12.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript: handler for scheme names with 7 through 9 characters, and the (2) javascript: handler for scheme names with 10 or more characters, which might allow remote attackers to bypass certain XSS protection schemes. NOTE: other researchers dispute the significance of this issue, stating "this only works when typed in the address bar.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only

Published 2007-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.