CVE-2008-4697: Opera Browser

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Fast Forward feature in Opera before 9.61, when a page is located in a frame, executes a javascript: URL in the context of the outermost page instead of the page that contains this URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Affected products

• Opera Opera Browser: up to and including 9.60; version 5.0 only; version 5.02 only; version 5.10 only; version 5.11 only; version 5.12 only; …

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