Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2023· Updated Dec 18, 2025
Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs
CVE-2023-4579
Description
Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL. This could have led to a site spoofing another if it had been maliciously set as the default search engine. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117.
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Affected products
5<117+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <117
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/firefox-esrpkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 117.0-r0+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 117.0-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 117.0-1.1
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