CVE-2013-3166: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 16.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving incorrect auto-selection of the Shift JIS encoding, leading to cross-domain scrolling events, aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0015.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only

Published 2013-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.