CVE-2013-1687: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The System Only Wrapper (SOW) and Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementations in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7 do not properly restrict XBL user-defined functions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges, or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via a crafted web site.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 21.0; version 19.0 only; version 19.0.1 only; version 19.0.2 only; version 20.0 only; version 20.0.1 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 17.0.6; version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; version 17.0.5 only; …

Published 2013-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.