CVE-2008-4698: Opera Browser

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Opera before 9.61 does not properly block scripts during preview of a news feed, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary new feed subscriptions and read the contents of arbitrary feeds.

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.