CVE-2007-4478: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 10.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the local zone via a URI, when the document at the associated URL is saved to a local file, which then contains the URI string along with the document's original content.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only

Published 2007-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.