CVE-2012-0474: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the docshell implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to short-circuited page loads, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.9; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only

Published 2012-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.