CVE-2010-0178: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, does not prevent applets from interpreting mouse clicks as drag-and-drop actions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with Chrome privileges by loading a chrome: URL and then loading a javascript: URL.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 3.5 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 3.5.2 only; version 3.5.3 only; version 3.5.4 only; version 3.5.5 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.0.3; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …

Published 2010-04-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.