CVE-2008-4696: Opera

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 45.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Opera.dll in Opera before 9.61 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the anchor identifier (aka the "optional fragment"), which is not properly escaped before storage in the History Search database (aka md.dat).

Affected products

• Opera Opera: any version; up to and including 9.6; version 5..10 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; …

Published 2008-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.