CVE-2010-0494: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 22.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted HTML document in a situation where the client user drags one browser window across another browser window, aka "HTML Element Cross-Domain Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7 only; version 6 only; version 8 only; version 8.0.6001 only
• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: any version; affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version; affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version; affected versions not specified

Published 2010-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.